Malthusian prediction problem

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1. To what extent has the Malthusian prediction that food production cannot keep up with population growth been validated in the course of the twentieth century?

2. To what extent does an increase in food production in a country imply that the consumption of food is also increasing and that undernourishment and malnutrition are on the decrease?

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