Rejoinder : Food, agricultural and trade policy to the year 2000

This article, partly in response to Fred Sanderson's article (pp 363–73), challenges the narrow approach of forecasting the future food situation by extrapolating current trends, and the view that little can be done to improve the predicament of the ‘poorest of the poor’. This article argues that we must look for ways of breaking out of the vicious circle of low income, low economic demand, low productivity and low levels of resource utilization.