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What can science and technology contribute to what is called the world food problem? President Johnson's Science Advisory Committee has been studying this question. It has nothing new to suggest, but it does consider that if the next twenty years can be endured, the more distant future should be supportable.
In December 1966 the House of Commons established the Select Committee on Science and Technology. The committee, thirteen strong, began with an examination of the nuclear power programme in Britain. It has finished taking evidence, so that it is possible to guess what the committee may recommend—and whether the experiment has been a useful one.