Food needs of the developing world in the early twenty-first century the proceedings of the study week of the Pontificial Academy of Sciences 27 - 30 January 1999

Food needs of the developing world in the early twenty-first century the proceedings of the study week of the Pontificial Academy of Sciences 27 - 30 January 1999

In November 1991 the Pontifical Academy of Sciences organised a study-week on the subject of "Resources and Population". The papers and deliberations of this conference were subsequently published by the Clarendon Press of Oxford and received a great deal of attention. Since that date the Academy has during these years continued its discussion of the issues connected with underdevelopment, and in doing so has concentrated in its approach on two principal areas: the questions and problems relating to population on the one hand, and those connected with the availability of goods and resources on the other. The last conference in this field was held jointly with the Royal Society of London in 1995 and was concerned with a specific subject which has received relatively little attention from international research: maternal breastfeeding. From 27 to 30 January of this year the Academy held a study-week on The Food Needs of the Developing World in the Early Twenty-First Century.