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Problems of Food Supply in Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kempton E. Webb
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Food is one of the most basic resources which the land, aided by man, can bring forth. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness and viability of Brazil's food resources as reflected in the actual process of supplying food to consuming centers. In other words, how efficiently is man utilizing his food resource base? Is enough food being produced? And, equally important, is there adequate means for getting the food to the consumer?

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1961 , pp. 239 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © University of Miami 1961

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References

1 The complete results of these studies have been published by the author as monographs:

Geography of Food Supply in Central Minas Gerais, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, Publication 642, maps, graphs, charts. 110 pp. 1959.

Suprimento de Géneros Alimenticios Básicos para a Cidade de Fortaleza (Banco de Nordeste do Brasil, S.A.) Escritorio Técnico de Estudos Económicos do Nordeste. Maps, graphs, 146 pp. July, 1957.

2 São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, Minas Gerais, Ceará, and Pará.

3 Webb, Suprimento de Productos Alimenticios Básicos para a Cidade de Fortaleza, pp. 24-35.

4 The cruzeiro was, during the period of the Fortaleza field work, worth about $0.015 at the free market rate of exchange.