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Food Reserves: Just One Failed Harvest...

Daryll E Ray and Harwood D Schaffer, October 2008

The World Today, Volume 64, Number 10

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The world is perilously short of grain; just one failed crop could produce a major crisis. More people are undernourished, grain reserves have shrunk and a new plan is urgently needed to provide supplies when market mechanisms cannot.