ter is being tamed. Those of us who work on the science and technology of food production realize that our job becomes even more difficult when populations are exploding" (Davidson, 1988, p. 75).
Both men's opinions match what appears to be today's truths about population and hunger. The general view is that the agricultural technology is available to feed the growing world, but because of inadequate distribution brought about by such issues as political, monetary, and moral concerns, food cannot get to those who need it and thus population growth and hunger remained intertwined.
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the USDA, agriculture has achieved unprecedented increased growth over the last thirty plus years. the total volume of food has grown by three percent per year which means that the amount of food in the world has doubled in absolute terms since 1950 (O'Brian, 1984, p. 86). From 1900 to 1950 food production increased by only 1.5 percent per year.
Conversely, there has been growth in population, but, even after the effect of this growth has been deducted, there has still been a 0.5 to 0.75 percent growth per year in per capital food supplies around the world (O'Brian, 1984, p. 87). These figures are
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