ABSTRACT
South America holds out greater possibilities of additional food production than any other continent. It stretches from the equatorial to the antarctic regions, but the southern subarctic part is narrow and forms only a small percentage of the total area. South America contains more potential new land than any other part of the world. The Argentine Republic is the largest food producer in South America and before the war was one of the largest food exporters in the world, having first place with linseed, maize and beef, and second place with wheat. Brazil has long been regarded as one of the most promising of all lands for agricultural development. “No country in the world,” wrote James Bryce in 1912, “possesses so large a proportion of land available for the support of human life and productive industry.” Few countries offer greater possibilities of agricultural and pastoral improvement at the present time than Uruguay.
