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...collectivized agricultural system-as well as the prevalence of drought and smuggling-made it necessary for the country to import 40% of its food last year. Tanzania has gone begging on the world market for food aid, but with modest success. The U.S. is providing 20,000 tons of grain as a grant and 40,000 more on easy credit, although it turned down a Tanzanian request for 200,000 tons of corn, the national diet staple, on the grounds that it has none to spare...
...emerging as a major claimant of world resources." We have a food shortage today not only because population growth has eaten away the gains from the Green Revolution Third World hybrid seed program, but because rich countries are upgrading their diets. Each year at least eight million tons of grain--enough to feed thirty five million people well--are diverted from human to animal mouths to provide more meat for the rich...
...opening program, however, should be taken with a grain of patience. In the next episode, freed from the obligation to pump out basic information, Bronowski is off to Jericho and an examination of agriculture as the basis for civilization. This is one of those undramatic notions whose miraculous qualities have faded with familiarity. Bronowski restores the vital and mysterious dimension with a simple tactic. He precedes his superb little essay on the domestication of wheat and animals in Jericho with a study of the Bakhtiari nomads of Iran, whose endless search for pasturage precludes the development of any culture worthy...
Bumper Harvests. The Soviet Union's relative economic well-being is explained in good part by bumper grain harvests in 1973 and '74 and by the increased flow of credits and technology from the West, which have enabled it to step up production in such critical industries as textiles, chemicals and oil. The Russians have also received a sizable windfall from the rise in world oil prices, which has increased the amount of badly needed hard currency they earn from the sale of oil to Western countries. Things are going well enough for the Soviets to again postpone...
...series of witty and often profound essays, a scientist sees the world not in a grain of sand, but in the pullulations of a single cell...