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The Food Prospect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Lester R. Brown

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The world food economy has undergone a basic transformation during the seventies. Not only did the world have surplus stocks and excess production capacity at the beginning of the decade, but it also appeared that both would be around for a long time to come. Suddenly in 1972 and 1973, they disappeared and the whole world was trying to make it from one harvest to the next. During the mid-seventies global food insecurity was greater than at any time since the war-torn years immediately following World War II.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 26 , Issue 103 , September 1978 , pp. 51 - 77
Copyright
Copyright © 1978 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

* This article is drawn from a forthcoming book, The Twenty-Ninth Day.