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Food aid, self-sufficiency and the new technology

Seeds of Plenty, Seeds of Want: Social and Economic Implications of the Green Revolution.

By Andrew Pearse. Pp.262, ISBN 0-19-877150-9. (Clarendon/Oxford University Press: 1980.) £7.50, $22.50.

Food for War — Food for Peace: United States Food Aid in a Global Context.

By Mitchel B. Wallerstein. Pp.312. ISBN 0-262-23106-9. (MIT Press: 1980.) $30, £18.60.

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Huddleston, B. Food aid, self-sufficiency and the new technology. Nature 292, 275–276 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1038/292275a0

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