Four thousand million mouths
Subtitle: scientific humanism and the shadow of world hunger.
By: Edited by F. Le Gros Clark and N.W. Pirie.
Contributors: Pirie, Norman Wingate, 1907-,
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1951
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1951
Subjects: Food supply; Nutrition
Table of contents: value: The Malthusian heritage, by F. Le Gros Clark.-  Conserving the soil, by G.V. Jacks.-  Manuring for higher yields, by F. Yates.-  Growing healthier crops, by F.C. Bawden.-  Genetics and the world's food, by S.C. Harland.-  Improving the milk supply, by H.D. Kay.-  The pig as a producer of food, by John Hammond.-  Harvesting the waters, by C.E. Lucas.-  The preservation and use of fish, by G.A. Reay and C.L. Cutting.-  The circumvention of waste, by N.W. Pirie.-  The processing of food, by A.L. Bacharach and T. Crosbie-Walsh.