Excerpt from World Food Needs and Availabilities, 1985: Update As a result of a Presidential Initiative in the summer of 1984, an Interagency Food Aid Analysis Working Group was established to provide the u.s. Government with the best possible food needs assessment for countries in the developing world. This update of World Food Needs and Availabilities. 1985 is prepared under the aegis of the interagency Working Group. An assessment of world food needs has serious implications for both donor and recipient countries. And it has the potential to influence the expenditure of many millions of dollars and affect the lives of many millions of people. It is. Therefore, very important that readers clearly understand the issues that the Food Needs and Availabilities report addresses. And those it does not. This report is not an allocation or programming document. But an objective analytical assessment of food needs. Allocation and programming decisions are made in other forums and consider factors in addition to the food needs assessed in this report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.