Your link only says something about the percentage of people living in developing countries. A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis,

Your link only says something about the percentage of people living in developing countries. A Malthusian catastrophe (also called a Malthusian check, crisis, disaster, or nightmare) was originally foreseen to be a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth had outpaced agricultural production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe I come from a developing country and I'm sure such a catastrophe never happened there. It hasn't happened in most of Latin American countries, either. There are people there who do live on subsistence-level but that's not related to a shortage of food.