influence through economic and food aid, the system adopted allowed the donor nations to distribute their own surplus agricultural produce, which hindered the recipients from establishing their own long term agricultural independence, and worse still, it exacerbated their economic troubles and spurred them on to further social and political instability.
Thus the 'Cold War' between the east and west fundamentally affected the world food balance. The result, as symbolized by the success of the 'Green Revolution', was a food production increase rate that even out-stripped that of the population explosion, and the resulting optimism that was dominant in the 1980's led to the reduction of agricultural protectionism being adopted as an international theme in the 'Uruguay Round' GATT talks. It is clear that we could take an optimistic assessment if we considered our future as an extension of the policies which governed the world food balance under the cold war period.
However, in the late eighties, the cold war structure collapsed, with the failure of the great historical experiment in socialist economic planning throughout the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the People's Republic of China. Following this, the world food balance structure changed markedly, and the global food supply and demand system is taking a new turn, with agricultural food products finally moving into the global marketplace. Today, the principal of a liberal market economy is globally recognized as applying to all goods, and a single global market has been realized. We can say that this has arisen as a direct result of the 1972 world food crisis, the instability of the seventies and eighties, and the conclusion of the 'GATT - 1993 Uruguay Round' talks.
The world food supply and demand after 1990 can be characterized as the food supply and demand within the economic system reformation period in which the market economy has filtered into both international and domestic markets. In the future, the restrictions on the earth's resources and environment will increase due to the continuing population growth, especially in developing countries, and also because of increased food demand fueled by the economic growth seen in Asian countries, resulting in a revolution in the food production and trading systems will be advanced through the overall penetration of a market
