Increasing the usefulness of internationally controlled research†

Paper given at a symposium in the Faculty of International Law, Geneva, Switzerland, in October 1970.

In places such as the wet tropics where nutritional deficiencies are obvious, there is reason to believe that nutrition surveys are often undertaken so as to postpone the time when something practical is done. Farming methods developed in drier and cooler regions may not be applicable. The research on agronomy and food science that is needed is not likely to be undertaken by industry except under contract from a government or International Agency. It would be most successfully undertaken in some special institutes in the wet tropics, financed by a foundation or FAO, in which all reasonable methods for preparing protein concentrates from local sources for local use could be developed and compared.

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Paper given at a symposium in the Faculty of International Law, Geneva, Switzerland, in October 1970.