ABSTRACT
Hunger and undernutrition are found throughout the world where poverty and inequality persist. While most evident in countries with a relatively low level of economic development, hunger is also found among the poor in the most highly industrialized capitalist societies. Governments emphasized the expansion of production to end the crisis; even the existing weak efforts at environmental protection were slackened in order to free the entrepreneurs to do their job. The World Bank, the Worldwatch Institute, and other groups publicized the decline in the average annual growth of population in most of the underdeveloped countries. Agriculture has always played a central role in economic development. Production of food was the first social economic activity. The development of a nation has always been the process of moving from an agricultural society to a more complex and advanced society where there is a steadily increasing percentage of the population employed in other economic, service, and cultural areas.
