WASHINGTON. Sept 8: A transcontinental intellectual grouping — the Club of Rome —1 In Its publication The First Global Revolution", has said hunger will prove the most persistent problem of the world if poverty stays as tn India, reports PTI.

Tn 1987". says the publics tlon entitled The First Global Revolution*, authored by Alexander King and Bertrand Sc heneider, "it was estimated that world food production was sufTkimt to provide some 19 per cent more calories than

on earth

Tel vast areas of hunger and malnutrition persisted, worsened by drought, famine and warfare. It seems, then-fore. that the existence of plenty of food In the world has little relevance to the perils tence of hunger.*

The success of the Green Revolution In India In transforming from food deficit to surplus, for example, docs not seem to hsve eliminated hunger fn that country, the authors say

In absolute term, hunger persists despite the fact that more people are being fed ad equatrly today than 1n our base year of 1988.

The co-existence of glut and gives rise to problems tn the surplus as well as in the deficit countries *

The Club of Rome does not entertain the argument that it is possible to grow food for • world population as high as 20 billion. This to probably tech nleaHy so*, says the publics tton. If agriculture to coneid ered in Isolation"

The book stresses the urgency of Improving the Mo nomic conditions In the poor countries and at the same time to Introduce effective means of

The Club of Rome Intro-

duced for the first time the idea of compensation to developing countries to persuade them not to add to the pollution by using fuel like coal, and declared that unclear power to teas polluting than coal and oil

'Many of us", said the pubh cation, nave been unhappy for a long time at the proliferation of nuclear power stations with their obvious dangers as well as those of storey of nuclear waste. but we now reluctantly admit that the use of coal and

lo society because of the carbon dioxide they produce, than to nuclear