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User Review - pjsullivan - LibraryThingArgues that the solution to world hunger is to grow food first instead of non-edible cash crops for export to the affluent First World. Discusses the political and economic reasons why so many nations ... Read full review
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Food first: beyond the myth of scarcity Frances Moore Lappé,Joseph Collins,Cary Fowler Snippet view - 1977 |
Food first: beyond the myth of scarcity Frances Moore Lappé,Joseph Collins,Cary Fowler Snippet view - 1977 |
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| Title | Food first: beyond the myth of scarcity |
| Authors | Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, Cary Fowler |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 7, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0345290453, 9780345290458 |
| Length | 619 pages |
| Subjects | › › Food consumption Food supply Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General Technology & Engineering / Food Science |
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