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geography of hunger and famine  

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  • The persistence of hunger and famine represents a fundamental paradox of the contemporary world system. At the global scale, since the early 1970s the growth of food production and trade has easily outpaced population growth. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Hunger and Famine, Geography of]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-MVHN7THF-N

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