With the ever increasing world population there is a corresponding increase in the magnitude of food, raw materials and energy supply problems which can be solved only by the development of new raw material resources and by bringing barren and hitherto uncultivated land under cultivation. To this end new transportation routes and facilities will have to be planned, and port installations of adequate capacity developed These problems with which more particularly the industrialized nations are faced world population is currently increasing at a rate of 80 million per year, so that it will be approximately doubled by the year 2015 can be effectively dealt with only by a major effort on the part of all nations By the year 2000 Africa alone will have about four times as many people to feed as now live in the Common Market countries.
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