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Hunger and Food Security
| Food security is a state in which all people have reliable access, both physically and economically, to a nutritionally adequate and culturally acceptable diet at all times through local nonemergency sources and are free from hunger. Food security can become a complex balance between national self-sufficiency (to ensure food supplies in times of shortages and high prices) and land set aside for export farm commodities. Some government subsidies pertain to self-sufficiency, some trade advantages, and some both. |
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered is required reading for anyone interested in development. If it had sold 7 million copies there'd probably be a lot less poverty, hunger and environmental degradation in the world than there is now.Healing Appalachia: Sustainable Living Through Appropriate Technology is the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region. The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation. |
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