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History and circumstance have been generous to a minority of the world’s population. In the United States and a relatively few other countries, suitable land, favorable climate, natural resources, and the application of science and technology under circumstances of advantageous marketing opportunity have produced a seemingly boundless supply of a wide variety of high-quality foods. But this is not the situation throughout much of the world. Contrasts are strikingly cruel, and from a position of plenty sometimes almost impossible to comprehend.
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Potter, N.N. (1986). World Food Needs. In: Food Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7262-0_25
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