Sir Edward John Russell OBE was a British soil chemist, agriculture scientist, and director of Rothamsted Experimental Station from 1912 to 1943. He initiated the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux, which later became the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.

• Preface  1. The Problem: Feeding the World's Population  2. The United Kingdom, Eire  3. Methods of Increasing Food Production in the United Kingdom  4. Northern Europe's Intensive Producers: The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Finland  5. France and the Peasant Producers of the Mediterranean Lands: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Egypt  6. Africa: (1) Southern Region: The White Man's Farming  7. Africa: (2) The Central Regions: Eastern Group; African Peasant and European Farming  8. Africa: (3) The Central Regions: Western Group; African Farming  9. Asia: (1) India and Pakistan  10. Asia: (2) China, Japan, Indonesia and the Rice Exporting Countries  11. The Food Exporters: (1) The United States, Canada  12. The Food Exporters: (2) Australia, New Zealand  13. The Potential Suppliers: The South American Countries  14. Trends in Food Production