FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: LONGER-FUN OUTLOOK AND POLICY.

The great bulk of all direct human wants that are administered to by human work break down into two groups of final objective services to the person: in one group, the last, preconsumption stage consists of commodities supplied to the person in his household of which the three main categories are housing, clothing, and food and drink; in the other group, services occupy the corresponding step and include five main groups education, travel, entertainment, health protection, and communication. Each of these eight primary supply categories has an economy of its own. In terms of human damage, the food economy of technologically advanced populations is everywhere afflicted with twin diseases: one damages food suppliers only and the other damages food eaters. The twin diseases spring from a common origin: failure to use productive capacity. For future, long-run policy in the food economy every technologically advanced country has successful indigenous models in its own system of economies.