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12 Food and Nutrition in the Aftermath of Nuclear War
12 Food and Nutrition in the Aftermath of Nuclear War
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In the United States and other developed countries, food no longer is carried by farmers to nearby markets. The northeastern United States is particularly vulnerable to a breakdown in transportation of foods since 284
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3. Food is supplied today in the United States and developed countries by a complex network of enterprises that involves not only farming, animal husbandry, and fishing but also farm machinery, pesticides, fertilizers, petroleum products, and commercial seeds.
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The United States and Canada are literally the breadbasket for the world; total cereal production in North America in 1982 was 387 million metric tons, of which 123 million metric tons or nearly one-third was exported.
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Today a large portion of food exports goes to parts of the world where, even with the grain imports shown in Table 1, millions of people suffer from undernutrition and hunger 2,3,7 The number of undernourished persons in developing countries is staggering, approaching one-quarter of all mankind.2 On the basis of 1980 data, the World Bank estimated that some 800 million persons in developing countries from 61 to 71 percent of their population have deficient diets.7 The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, using slightly more stringent criteria, estimate that some 16 to 23 percent of the global population, or 436 million persons, have food intake levels that permit little more than survival (1.2 times the basal metabolic rate, a level of caloric intake below which survival is not possible and which is incompatible with productive work)
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.i food exports of North America, so a disruption of these supplies would have grave consequences for most of the populations of developing countries.2 In the past decade an increasing interdependence of countries on their food supplies has occurred.~-~3 In 1982, as shown in Table 1, the major grain-exporting countries, the United States, Canada, the European Economic Community, and Australia, exported 170 million metric tons of cereals.) The developing countries were the major recipients of these exports.
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Document WHA 36/1983/7. iiInternational Food Policy Research Institute.
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