National Academies Press: OpenBook
« Previous: DISCUSSION
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 54
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 55
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 56
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 57
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 58
Suggested Citation:"PARTICIPANTS." National Research Council. 1975. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18516.
×
Page 59

Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.

PARTICIPANTS Speakers and Discussants Charles Cargille, M.D., World Population Society Peter Cott, The Population Institute Charles S. Dennison, Consultant Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Senate John Mellor, Cornell University Eloise Murray, American Home Economics Association Don Paarlberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture Warren Wilcox, Congressional Research Service Guests and Observers Ali Cambel, National Science Foundation Sharyn Carlson, The Johns Hopkins University Nelson Denlinger, Senator Humphrey's Staff Emanuel Haynes, National Science Foundation Charles Huckaba, National Science Foundation Carl Leopold, National Science Foundation Anthony Neyland, World Bank Harry Piccariello, National Science Foundation Russell Stevens, National Research Council COPEP Members Present Edward Wenk, Jr., Chairman Myron Tribus, Vice-Chairman Vinton W. Bacon Raymond Bauer Samuel S. Baxter William D. Carey Joseph Fisher Milton Pikarsky Nelson W. Polsby Louis H. Roddis, Jr. Abe Silverstein Abel Wolman 54

NAE Officers Robert C. Seamans, Jr., President William E. Shoupp, Vice-President Staff Micah H. Naftalin, Executive Director L.F. (Barry) Barrington, Study Director Robert F. Manske, Professional Associate Laurence I. Moss, Executive Secretary Pushpa N. Schwartz, Professional Associate Hanna Hunt, Administrative Assistant Elizabeth Grove, Secretary 55

World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar Get This Book
×
MyNAP members save 10% online.
Login or Register to save!
Download Free PDF

World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions: Report of a Seminar is the summary of a seminar of the Committee on Public Engineering Policy (COPEP) of the Assembly of Engineering convened in July, 1974. Participants presented and discussed ways in which engineering resources and techniques could be applied to improve food production, processing, storage, and distribution to achieve food security in the poorest of nations.

A combination of unfortunate circumstances—bad weather, poor harvest, sharply rising prices for energy and fertilizer—precipitated a world food crisis in the years 1972-1974. Hardest hit were the people in the poorest and some of the most populous developing countries. Because of large grain purchases by the Soviet Union and an earlier U.S. policy to reduce its agricultural surpluses to manageable levels, food supplies in the world market became insufficient and too costly for the needy countries.

This report promotes the vital interconnection between farm production and social organization, between resource requirements and trade balances, between the rational use of the ecosystem and the wellbeing of all people. World Hunger: Approaches to Engineering Actions presents a coordinated strategy of actions for achieving worldwide food security. Topics covered include raising crop yields through better agricultural and irrigation practices, improving food technology, and building more efficient transport and management systems for the delivery of inputs to farmers and food to market. This book makes the case that engineers have a contribution to make and that opportunities for engineering innovation and talent to develop technological options to help solve this problem are manifold.

  1. ×

    Welcome to OpenBook!

    You're looking at OpenBook, NAP.edu's online reading room since 1999. Based on feedback from you, our users, we've made some improvements that make it easier than ever to read thousands of publications on our website.

    Do you want to take a quick tour of the OpenBook's features?

    No Thanks Take a Tour »
  2. ×

    Show this book's table of contents, where you can jump to any chapter by name.

    « Back Next »
  3. ×

    ...or use these buttons to go back to the previous chapter or skip to the next one.

    « Back Next »
  4. ×

    Jump up to the previous page or down to the next one. Also, you can type in a page number and press Enter to go directly to that page in the book.

    « Back Next »
  5. ×

    To search the entire text of this book, type in your search term here and press Enter.

    « Back Next »
  6. ×

    Share a link to this book page on your preferred social network or via email.

    « Back Next »
  7. ×

    View our suggested citation for this chapter.

    « Back Next »
  8. ×

    Ready to take your reading offline? Click here to buy this book in print or download it as a free PDF, if available.

    « Back Next »
Stay Connected!