Contents: Overview of the food-poverty-population problem -- The Ominous food deficits -- From Evolution to revolution in agriculture -- A World perspective: adequacy of physical resources -- Decade of awakening -- The World assistance community mobilizes -- New Focus on food crops and animals -- Toward forced - pace campaigns -- The Basic strategy -- Land tenure and enterprises -- Research with payoff -- Inputs, finance, marketing ,and prices -- Expediting training -- Toward more effective assistance.