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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.
 
-- 
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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