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...remains to be seen if the various blocs can overcome their differences and actually implement these agreements by supplying the huge amounts of grain and money needed. The long-range proposals did little to help the millions who may not survive until the next harvest. Hope was briefly raised that immediate gram needs-estimated by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization to be at least 8 million tons in South Asia and Africa-might be met when Canada and Australia together pledged 1.5 million tons of short-term aid. But the U.S., the Soviet Union...
...follow-up to Thursday's nationwide World Harvest Fast, members of the Harvard-Radcliffe South Asian Society and a Yale group led by the Rev. William Sloane Coffin will man booths at gates one and six of the stadium where they will accept donations...
...present crisis, Kissinger outlined a comprehensive five-point program for global food planning. He urged the delegates to form a coordinating group and work out details for an international grain reserve that would assure an emergency food supply of 60 million tons. Participating countries would pool information on harvest prospects and stocks, agree on the size of global reserves necessary to protect against famine and share responsibility for storing and distributing the stockpiled grain. In its emphasis on distribution by need rather than commercial demand, Kissinger's proposal was an almost revolutionary departure-certainly for a U.S. diplomat -from...
Even the U.S. is no longer the bottomless cornucopia that it once seemed. By October this year, miserable weather had reduced the harvest of corn by 16% and soybeans by 19%, while demands from the developing countries continue to mount. Merely to feed one pound of grain per person daily to their added population by 1985, they may have to import at least 85 million tons of grains, compared with 25 million tons now. Their import bill, figured at current prices, would top $17 billion for food alone; they would still have big requirements for imported technology, oil and manufactured...
...rich fields of India's Rejasthan state, where the monsoon rains usually sweep in faithfully each summer, the rice crop has been devastated by the first drought in years. Eastward on the Indian subcontinent, great floods have ruined the Bangladesh harvest. Far off in Africa's Sahel region, six years of drought have only recently been interrupted by rain. In the U.S., both the corn and soybean crops will fall far below expectations this year because of a freakish succession of excess spring rains, summer drought and early fall frost...