L'agriculture en l'an 2000 : essai de prospective

Agriculture in the year 2000 - Food consumption must be considered differently in rich countries from those where are food shortages. For these, present-day technology, if used, will enable the population to be supplied in the middle run notwithstanding the increasing numbers of the population. Technical progress, in spite of the upheaval and the fears that it has caused, will continue in agriculture as in the other fields of human activity. During the last centuries evolution has given way to a constant limitation of the outlets in the western countries for nearly all agricultural products; this trend will remain in spite of all the work done to intensify and control the production. Agricultural problems will remain, for to an ever improving productivity, for the benefit af all consumers, will correspond a relative decrease in outlets. States will be faced as now, with increasing difficulties which will be still more complicated by the developpment of the food processing industry and by the necessity of taking to a greater extent the influence of diet on the health of people into account.