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From famine to feast in 40 years: Policy matters

by Shenggen Fan

In the mid-1970s, the outlook for food supplies around the world was grim. There were talks of “food triage”— food-rich countries would decide which food-poor countries should get food, thereby dooming the rest to death.

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