Kabouters, or Pixies, led by ex-provo leader Roel van Duijn, won several seats in city council elections throughout The Netherlands last week.

TIME was when food experts round the world regularly issued gloomy forecasts of impending famine and starvation for the earth’s exploding population. That rarely happens these days, thanks largely to the Green Revolution brought about by new, high-yield strains of wheat and rice. Thus, when 1,200 authorities wound up…