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food supplyAvailability of food, usually for human consumption. Food supply can be studied at scales ranging from individual households to global patterns. Since the 1940s the industrial and agricultural aspects of food supply have become increasingly globalized. New farming, packaging, and distribution techniques mean that the seasonal aspect of food supply has been reduced in wealthier nations such as the USA and the UK. In some less developed countries there are often problems of food scarcity and distribution caused by climate-related crop failure. |
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| Now, it is very clear to me that in so long a period one would have expected that the carnivorous creatures, multiplying unchecked, would have exhausted their food supply and have been compelled to either modify their flesh-eating habits or die of hunger. Much depended upon food supply, climatic conditions, and the prevalence of animals of the more dangerous species; though Kerchak often led them on long marches for no other reason than that he had tired of remaining in the same place. It is impossible to apply such methods now, owing to the ignorance and poverty of our scattered farming population; but imagine the problem of providing the food supply of our nation once taken in hand systematically and rationally, by scientists |
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