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Countries have typically linked their national security closely with advanced weapon systems and a large military budget. The key to national security and survival, however, is a reliable food supply. A food supply must be maintained despite such factors as land conversion, population growth and economic inequalities. Reliable food supplies in developing countries are in jeopardy due to deliberate crop destruction and inefficient food distribution; resulting in widespread chronic hunger. Each year millions of acres …

…to balance food supply and demand, and, on the other hand, to improve equity, reduce poverty, and to ensure adequate quantities of food for all people. A primary requirement for increasing the food yield of plants and animals is to bring about a change in the attitude of humans toward their environment. Exploitation must give way to recognition of the earth's limited carrying capacity and of those practices that will maintain or enhance this capacity.