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Keywords: index of food production per caput in 1988-1990 by world region, the natural resource base and technological change, diminishing returns and production per caput, market failure and government intervention, conservation of resources, risk reduction, welfare loss due to external costs, alleviation of poverty, provision of rural infrastructure, support of agricultural research and development, inter-sectoral balance, the relationship between price of food and production, internal trade in food, social costs of agricultural pesticides