Wojciechowski, Henryk2017-11-262017-11-261977Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 39, 1977, z. 3, s. 153-1710035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/20642The studies concerning the development and transformations which are taking place on the world food market are being widely conducted primarily because of the importance of food in the process of shaping the social and economic world development. At present the food factor — its resources and capabilities of meeting the growing needs of mankind — is the barrier limiting its future development. From the beginnings of XIX cent. the increase in world food production is a relatively smooth process, correlated with the constantly growing demand. However, already in the interwar period the world food market is undergoing serious perturbations, having their root in the difficulties of adjusting supply to effective demand. Those perturbations grew even stronger in the last 25 post-war years, during which a dramatic deepening of food crisis can be observed, focussing once more the attention on the mutual relationeship of the food supply size, food reserves, food demand and the corresponding prices. The explosion of food crisis in 1972 in these circumstances only confirms an expansion of food production on the one hand and the size of world population on the other, a correlation that affects the future world economic development as well as its economic transformations, particulary in the Third World countries. The author concentrates mainly on the possibilities of shoving off the barrier restraining further world economic development, which at present constitute the permanently growing food requirements (impossible to meet). As one of the remedies in this respect the author sees the introduction of specific changes in the world's trade pattern in the terms of trade. They will certainly have a complicated and composite character, as they stemm from numerous and various interrelated factors which are shaping the world food market.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł