保证发展中世界迅速增长的人口对粮食的需要,是最尖锐、最严重的问题之一。已解放国家的很大一部份人口居住在南亚和东南亚国家,近几十年来那里的粮食问题处于特别危急的状况。其特点是按人口平均的食品保障水平很低。七十年代中期,正是在这个地区居住着发展中国家绝大部份经常挨饿的人——约有2.86亿人,即几乎占南亚和东南亚人口总数的 Ensuring the food needs of the rapidly growing population in the developing world is one of the sharpest and most serious problems. A large proportion of the population of liberated countries resides in South and Southeast Asian countries and the food problems there have been particularly precarious in recent decades. It is characterized by a low level of food security on an average by the population. It was in the mid-1970s that it was in this area that most of the developing countries were often starving - some 286 million people, or nearly the entire population of South and Southeast Asia