However, although food may move freely from country to country through trade, it does not necessarily move freely all the time. Food producing countries do not offer food to food importing countries in the event of poor harvest. This is where the problem of food shortage and unstable supply occurs and the need for food security arises.

There are many countries in the world today, and they all have very different natural conditions. As I mentioned just now, Pakistan is an arid country where precipitation is insufficient and cultivation cannot be performed without irrigation. On the other hand, there are countries that are endowed with vast land and agricultural resources and those that are not.

People cannot move freely between these countries. As a result, countries that are poor in agricultural resources inevitably experience famine when there is shortage in overall amount of food that is available. However, world peace cannot be maintained in such a state.

My proposal for solving the problem arising from lack of balance between world population and food will be as follows. The present state in which developed countries are producing large amount of food and exporting it to developing countries is against the principle of international division of labor. The reason for this lies in food production that continued in developed countries during and after the war which eventually resulted in overproduction. The structure of international division of labor started to crumble after developed countries started selling farm products to developing countries which used to export food to these developed countries.

This is where the contradiction in which the developing countries whose income is low and therefore have to rely mainly on agriculture have to import food originates. I think it is necessary to rectify this situation in order to maintain the stability of food self sufficiency in the world.

In addition, countries must secure at least 60 to 70010 of food they need from domestic production. Otherwise, they will not be able to supply minimum food to their people and maintain the stability of their society in the event of overall food shortage. For this purpose, it is necessary to take measures that are in conformity with natural condition of each country.

In other words, countries with water shortage must build dams and canals so that they will be able to produce food like countries with abundant water, while countries with abundant water do not have to make so much effort with regard to water. So the measures that will have to be taken in terms of natural conditions differ from country to country. International and bilateral assistance are needed in taking these measures from the viewpoint of natural conditions and are the fundamental requirement for realizing food security.

I think, this will be the basic principle in food security. I used as an example Pakistan to illustrate this point. Thank you very much for your attention.