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AMONG the outstanding changes in the world since 1832, when the British Association first held a meeting at Newcastle upon Tyne, has been the great increase in population, its expectation of life and its standard of living. The numbers of human beings in the world is now estimated at 2,300 millions, and they are increasing at the ate of 20 millions a year. What are the prospects of man being able to provide the food necessary to meet such a rise in demand, what are the problems involved, and how is scientific discovery contributing to their solution? These are the subjects deals with by Sir John Russell in his presidential address to the British Association at Newcastle this year (see p. 379).
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World Population and World Food Supplies. Nature 164, 373–374 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164373a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/164373a0