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Intsormil 2000 Annual Report, John M. Yohe, Thomas Crawford, Jr., Joan Frederick, Dorothy Stoner
Intsormil 2000 Annual Report, John M. Yohe, Thomas Crawford, Jr., Joan Frederick, Dorothy Stoner
INTSORMIL Impacts and Bulletins
Presently, worldwide, more than 800 million people are hungry and over I billion are desperately poor, and food demand is increasing rapidly. The majority of poor live in rural areas in developing countries and agricultural and food systems development is vital to economic growth; improving environmental quality; strengthening nutrition, health and child survival; improving the status of women; and promoting democratization. It is estimated that by 2000, the number of people living in developing countries will grow from 4.9 billion to 6.8 billion people. More than 1.3 billion people today live on less than one dollar per day. It is …