Pastoral Resources

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.

Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

Then it was that the exports of slaves from Virginia and the Carolinas was so great that the population of those States remained almost, if not quite stationary.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

Our population is headed for a stable plateau, which means an aging population.

It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.