FOOD GAPS AND SURPLUSES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: STATUS, TRENDS, AND IMPLICATION 1967-88

Richard C. Taylor and Mervin J. Yetley

No 277647, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Comparisons of trends in food production and consumption in 106 developing countries during 1967-80 showed that deterioration in food calorie balances because of shrinking calorie surplus or widening calorie gaps was more than twice as common as were incidences of expanding calorie surpluses or narrowing calorie gaps. Continued growth in net food exports to these countries is highly probable during the rest of the eighties. Fifty net calorie importers with widening calorie gaps comprise the core of the world's current and prospective problems in food security and human malnutrition. Causes of intercountry differences in food self-sufficiency are identified.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 1985-02
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.277647

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