President. some of these implications of the growing food crisis around the globe--of the sharp increase in malnutrition in many areas of the worldwere reviewed over the past weekend in a series of outstanding articles in the New York Times and the Boston Globe. As Harold Schmeck notes in the New York Times article. "malnutrition and its ultimate formstarvationare the real causes of world concern over the teetering balance between food supplies and population across the globe." The article contains an interview with Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw. head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at MIT. who has been a frequent consultant to the Subcommittee on Refugees. which I serve as chairman. Dr. Scrimshaws interview underscores testimony he gave. just 1 year ago. before a joint hearing of the Refugee Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Health regarding world hunger. health and refugee problems. He notes that although real progress has been made against malnutrition over the past two decades. a sharp turn for the worse has occurred over the last year. Floods. droughts and other anomalies of weather have hurt crops in some of the worlds main food producing regions. as well as in areas of the third world where food shortages can be least absorbed.
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