ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a number of alternatives that conceivably could alter the cycle. Most possibilities for affecting the depressed nutritional situation of the countries depend on the policy decisions made in both developed and developing countries. Most food-aid programs to developing countries have been made possible by surplus stocks of grains and other commodities in a very few developed countries. The optimistic plans of the Green Revolution were built around the development and distribution of dwarf and semidwarf varieties that could be planted densely to produce higher yields. Historically, as the wealth of people or societies increases, their consumption of livestock products increases. Population variants range from 88.8 percent to 105 percent of that used for the basic forecasts. The extent of any overall nutritional adjustment and the size of any resulting multiplier effects would be determined by the size and quality of any initial increment and the extent of its distribution among producers of the various important staple commodities.
