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TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE AND DELIVER FOOD
Pages 25-32

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... If not, they will be in serious difficulty. In the next decade or so FAO anticipates that food production in the exporting countries will grow rapidly and supplies per capita will continue to increase at a 25
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From page 26...
... This average will cover some very grave difficulties in distribution; there will be large population sectors that will experience no improvement and perhaps a worsened situation. On the whole some improvement is expected even in the less developed countries, but there will be a widening of the gap between the developed and the less developed countries in per capita food supply.
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From page 27...
... We know that the effect is to greatly improve nutrition. However, some people have reservations about food additives, or about any kind of food engineering, and so we have the very human problem of food acceptance.
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From page 28...
... For example, if agriculture were mechanized in some less developed countries, the resultant unemployment of a great number of people might bring about social unrest and, indeed, disaster. We did it in this country when we mechanized our cotton production at a very rapid rate and caused the unemployment of millions.
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From page 29...
... Without the right equipment to handle the commodities dispatched from the modern ships, one ends up with the old scoop shovel, and thereby loses all the efficiency that could be gained from using the larger bulk carriers. Part of the problem of sending vast supplies of grains to foreign countries is that it takes these countries a long time to build the port capacity to handle what is landed on their shores.
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From page 30...
... We spend 8 cents of each marketing dollar in the U.S. just for packaging to protect the product; but in the less developed countries, it is sometimes cheaper to lose the product than to package it.
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From page 31...
... The crux of the problem is expertise, in growing the farm commodities the rest of the world requires, and in getting this food into the mouths of those who need it. This means designing ships that can sail into ports that are now inadequate by our standards, helping foreign countries to design ports that can handle the ships, and designing storage facilities and inland roads to move our great agricultural abundance.
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