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Food and Dependency: P.L. 480 Aid to Black Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Richard Vengroff
Richard Vengroff
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Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Applied International Development Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.
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In a recent study of 90 developing countries by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, 52 of them were found to have more than 15 per cent of their populations undernourished. This figure was determined using the F.A.O. minimum intake of 1,600 calories per day, only about half of that of the average diet of citizens in the ‘First World’. In Black Africa, 29 of the 33 independent nations included in the F.A.O. study fall into the category of undernourished. Contributions of aid in the form of food and food-production technology are therefore extremely important to this region. Obtaining an adequate supply of food for their people must be high on the priority list for governments in sub-Saharan Africa, and is the focus of this article.

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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 27 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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