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Re: China and Food (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
Indeed the FAO Web page www.fao.org has figures on the number of
malnourished in the world. If I read the graphs correctly (for each
of 6 regions) and added correctly, we have
1969-71 885 million
1991-92 730 million
2010 (predicted) 655 million
Different papers at the Rome conference have given figures differing
by a few tens of millions. This is natural for such an imprecise
concept. East Asia is the big winner, and Subsaharan Africa is the
big loser.
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John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/
During the last years of the Second Millenium, the Earthmen complained
a lot.
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