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The World Food Problem
David Grigg (Author)
9780631176336, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 9 December 1993
320 pages
23 x 15.4 x 2.4 cm, 0.51 kg
About the first edition: "The book promotes its own eminent claims to be on an accessible shelf of every senior school and university library." Geography "An excellent addition to the literature ... The book is easy to read and would be a useful textbook for courses on hunger and poverty, third-world development, and agricultural geography." Geographical Review
"Ought to become a classic textbook and undoubtedly is a monument of scholarly synthesis." Geographical Magazine
In The World Food Problem, updadted in every respect since its first edition in 1985, David Grigg provides a full account of who is hungry, where and why.
List of Figures viii List of tables x Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction 1 2 The extent of hunger 5 3 A short history of hunger 30 4 Population and poverty 55 5 The growth of world food output 73 6 The expansion of the world’s arable land 90 7 Agricultural development in the developed countries since 1945 115 8 Tropical Africa 132 9 Latin America 170 10 Asia 200 11 Trade and aid 236 12 Conclusions 256 Noted 267 Index 299
Subject Areas: Geography [RG]
