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1.

Food for Thought? The Politics of Food, Resources and Development in Africa, in New Zealand International Review » Read Now
by Jo-Ansie Van Wyk. Multiple pgs.

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...growth rates and low economic development. The doubling of food supply comes at a time when more than 800 million people world-wide...security could become a major issue...
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The Political Economy of Hunger: Famine Prevention (Vol. 2) ("Food Supply Management" begins on p. 160) » Read Now
by Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen. 404 pgs.

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...policy issues including the role of food supply management in famine prevention...question as to whether Wollos low food supply should be treated as an endogenous...entire...
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Agriculture and Food Supply in France during the War » Read Now
by Michel Auge-Laribe, Pierre Pinot. 350 pgs.

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...AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SUPPLY IN FRANCE DURING THE WAR ECONOMIC...end of this volume . AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SUPPLY IN FRANCE DURING THE WAR AGRICULTURE...FEDERATION OF...
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The Farmer in the Second World War (Chap. 16 "Government Management of the Food Supply") » Read Now
by Walter W. Wilcox. 410 pgs.

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...16. GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT OF THE FOOD SUPPLY 264 17. TECHNOLOGICAL...postwar period. Management of the food supply during the war was a new experience...storage facilities...
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Sharing Scarcity: Bread Rationing and the First World War in Berlin, 1914-1923, in Journal of Social History » Read Now
by Keith Allen. 2 pgs.

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...led historians to judge Germanys food supply system a failure, and the bureaucrats...legitimacy of the state."? "Problems of food supply and distribution," Bonzon and...
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Health, Food, and Nutrition in Third World Development ("Population Growth and Food Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa" begins on p. 340) » Read Now
by Pradip K. Ghosh. 622 pgs.

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...health--Developing countries. 2. Food supply--Developing countries. 3. Nutrition...Introduction 3 Population Growth and Food Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa 340...Estimates of...
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World Hunger: A Neo-Malthusian Perspective (Discussion of the food supply begins on p. 9) » Read Now
by Mitchell Kellman. 248 pgs.

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List of Tables List of Figures Preface Introduction The Analytical Framework Methodology Worldwide Impending Hunger: The Empirical Picture The Evidence of Effective Malthusian Pressures: The Empirical Record Changes in the Agricultural Tehcnology Summary Appendixes Bibliography Index
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Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (Includes discussion of the food supply in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Amartya Sen. 257 pgs.

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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the...
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The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
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Spatio-Evolutionary Model of Jamaican Small Farming, in The Geographical Journal » Read Now
by Balfour A. B. Spence. 10 pgs.

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...to play in sustainable domestic food supply and by extension, the food security...regard, contraction in domestic food supply and increased dependence on imported...adverse...
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The UN World Food Programme and the Development of Food Aid » Read Now
by D. John Shaw. 302 pgs.

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This book is the first history of the World Food Programme, the food aid arm of the United Nations. It tells the story of the growth of WFP from modest beginings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to its current role as the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and...
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This book is the first history of the World Food Programme, the food aid arm of the United Nations. It tells the story of the growth of WFP from modest beginings as a three-year experiment in 1963-65 to its current role as the main source of international food aid for both disaster relief and development against the background of the evolution and development of food aid.
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Consumer Reaction to a Risk/Benefit/Option Message about Agricultural Chemicals in the Food Supply, in Journal of Consumer Affairs » Read Now
by Helen Chipman, Patricia Kendall, Garry Auld, Michael Slater, Thomas Keefe. 20 pgs.

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...about agricultural chemicals in the food supply. by Helen Chipman , Patricia...reassure the public that the U.S. food supply is among the safest in the world...maintaining...
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Urban Fruit and Vegetable Supply in Dar Es Salaam, in The Geographical Journal » Read Now
by Kenneth Lynch. 12 pgs.

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...ever swelling demand for food. The food supply systems become increasingly complex...argued that an adequate and reliable food supply for the growing cities of Africa...on...