Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:46:59 -0500 (EST)
From: PetersFarm@aol.com
Subject: Any data on food supplies and hunger?
Dear friends -
1) Does anyone know where, if anywhere, I can find statistics on
a) how much of the food produced in the U.S. is shipped to other
countries?
b) how much of the food consumed in the U.S. comes from other countries?
c) how much of U.S. agriculture production is in food?
2) Can any of you recommend recent study reports on hunger,
malnutrition,
starvation, in the U.S. and the world?
Thanks in advance for any answers,
Betty Gras
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Dear Betty and Saneteers,
An organisation that specializes in information on the global political
economy of hunger, and in researching solutions to these problems, is:
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA
tel: 510.654.4400 fax: 510.654.4551
www.foodfirst.org
In the Food First thinking, an understanding of global food flows, and
patterns of global food dependency and independence, as Betty's
questions suggest, are important to an understanding the political
economy of hunger, and the advancement of a socially, economically, and
ecologically sustainable agriculture is an essential part of the
solution.
Karl North
Northland Sheep Dairy
"Mother Nature never tries to farm without livestock" --Albert Howard
"Pueblo que canta no morira" --Cuban saying
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