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Preferred term
geography of hunger and famine
Definition
- 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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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_of_hunger_and_famine
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