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International Symposium: Training of United States and Foreign Nationals for Leadership in Dairying in Developing Nations

College Course in International Food Development

Department of Food Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

ABSTRACT

Solution of the problem of predicted world food shortages will not be accomplished by natural forces or by wars, unless the latter are nuclear. Traditional war does not reduce populations enough to match future food supplies for, as Sir Charles Darwin stated in Humanity and Subsistence (3), one has only to note that it required four years of World War II to kill ten million people, a number now replaced in three months. The avoidance of starvation only can be accomplished by early careful planning and the contributions of sufficiently trained and dedicated individuals. A few well placed millions of dollars to create centers of excellence, inspire fine teaching, and develop spirit in International Agriculture and Food Development and organize training leading to genuine field experience will do much to aid world food development, perhaps as much as any single program which can be conceived.

More students must be properly trained or oriented for this challenge. Strictly technical and scientific training is not enough for food developers of the future. The new type of student must learn something of the history and the cultures of peoples involved in food production throughout the world, of the philosophies behind food habits and taboos, of the need and mechanisms for population control, of the means for producing new types of foods and conserving old and of the financial skills required to bring forth investment capital. This should be the major responsibility of Food Science centers, for no other group is in a position to handle it quite so well. If the present course in International Food Development at Cornell is a start in this direction, or in any way acts as a catalyst, then its objective will have been achieved.