Since Malthus wrote his famous Essay on Population, the world has witnessed great improvements in numerous measures of well-being Ð life expectancy, infant mortality, incidence of famines and plagues, per capita food consumption as well as real per capita incomes. These improvements have come...

Food and Agricultural Policy for the 1980s, edited by D. Gale Johnson, consists of the proceedings of a conference on the agricultural legislation needed for the unfolding decade.�