food-production

Updated: June 16, 2025

'Don't, please, go away again! Everybody in the county who was at all responsible for its war-work felt the same. Her example, during the winter, had been invaluable, and the skill with which she had brought the Squire into line, and set the Squire's neglected estate on the road to food-production, had been in Sir Henry's view nothing short of a miracle.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Elizabeth's Campaign

With better knowledge and better tools, half the people now engaged in food-production in Asia could produce all the food that the entire rural population now produces, and the other half could be released for manufacturing thereby doubling the earning power and the spending power of the whole population.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

The whole problem of the increase of the more civilised races and the necessary accompanying increase of food-production depends for its solution on the speedy introduction of irrigation methods into what are now the great unproductive deserts of the world.

Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester - More Science From an Easy Chair

This was at once the most natural and the wisest course, for of all the expedients for preserving the equilibrium between population and food-production, increasing the area of cultivation is, under the circumstances just described, the easiest and most effective. Theoretically the same result might have been obtained by improving the method of agriculture, but practically this was impossible.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Derelict farms, the food-production of the county, timber, village reconstruction, war-work of various kinds, what time was there left? what room? in a mind wrestling with a hundred new experiences, for the guessing of a girl's riddle? Yet all the same she remained her just and kindly self. She was troubled much troubled by the twins' behaviour. She must somehow get to the bottom of it.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Elizabeth's Campaign

While man's increasing efficiency of food-production, combined with colonisation of whole virgin continents, has for generations given the apparent lie to Malthus' mathematical statement of the Law of Population, nevertheless the essential significance of his doctrine remains and cannot be challenged. Population does press against subsistence.

Jack London - A Collection of Stories