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Sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by high population growth and limited financial resources that constrain imports and negate the region's growth in agricultural output, while North Africa and the Middle East import large quantities of commercial agricultural products, both to compensate for production shortfalls and to meet their increasing demand for food and feed grains. ERS provides long-term projections of production and trade in North African and Middle Eastern countries and analyzes 37 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa in annual updates of its Food Security Report.
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The Poultry Sector in Middle-Income Countries and Its Feed Requirements: the Case of Egypt examines the interaction between domestic feed and animal production and meat and feed imports. Egypt, a country with little potential for growing feed, illustrates the issues facing many middle-income countries.
Food Security Assessment, 2002-03 projects food gaps in 70 low-income developing countries and presents findings for North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. Special articles focus on methods used to measure food security in the United States and consumer and producer price policies in India.
Issues in Food Security, a series of concise papers, summarizes ERS research on food security assessment, natural resource implications, trade and external support, and food security in the United States.
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updated: January 14, 2004
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