The fourth World Food Survey
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It is now fourteen years since the Third World food Survey was issued by FAO in 1963. As such, the publication of The Fourth World Food Survey, which should have followed within a decade of the previous one, may be said to be overdue. However, the document "Assessment of the World Food Situation" wh1ch was prepared for the World Food Conference in 1974 included much of the material, though, in a more concise form, that would have formed the subject of this survey. Another FAO publication, Population, Food Supply, and Agricultural Development, which appeared at about the same time, also covered much the same ground.
The publication of the present number in the series was therefore held over for this year, the scope of this survey is broadly similar to that of its predecessors. It makes an attempt to update the review of recent trends in food production and supply against the background of increasing population and most recent evidence regarding the incidence of under and malnutrition. The synergism between malnutrition and disease is more evident now than before. This review is disquieting, while firm evidence of any significant progress being made since the World Food Conference in reducing the numbers affected by inadequate supplies of food is not yet available.