Food

Evan Luard

Chapter 7 in The Management of the World Economy, 1983, pp 171-190 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Until recently there was no world food problem. There were food problems for individual villages; more often for whole districts, suffering from flood or drought; occasionally for entire countries. But for most of the time most nations were able to meet their own essential food needs. Trade in food was mainly in luxuries: such as spices, sugar, tea and coffee. Even where trade in essential foodstuffs developed — as in the grain trade from the Baltic to Western Europe, or from south-west China to the east coast — it was relatively marginal in relation to the needs of the receiving areas. Because populations were only a fraction of their levels today, most countries, even with very low yields for each acre sown, were able to feed most of their population most of the time.

Keywords: Food Production; World Economy; Poor Country; Rich Country; World Food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-17165-1_7

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