Excerpt from World Food Needs and Availabilities, 1988/89: Summer This is the initial report in the World Food Needs and Availabilities series for Food needs assessments for update those published in the May 1988 report. The country coverage of the World Food Needs and Availabilities report has been reduced from 69 to 55. The 14 countries excluded contributed percent of status quo import requirements, and less than 5 percent of assessed status quo and per cent of nutrition-based additional food needs to meet consumption requirements. Excluded countries contributed less than 1 percent of cereal needs in sub-saharan Africa. For detailed analysis of the reduced country coverage, see Appendix A. Additional food needs are no longer analyzed for all countries in the initial issue of World Food Needs and Availabilities. Each quarterly report analyzes only those countries for which current crop information is available: 15 countries in the initial (summer), 17 in the fall and 23 in the winter. The spring issue will present final adjustments as needed. 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.