That’s a weird way of saying “famine deaths increase over 20 years.”
I believe that massive spike in the ‘60s was almost exclusively due to Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”. Which was said to have killed upwards of 55M within a 4 year period of ‘58-‘62. Crazy stuff.
Communism sure killed a lot of people. Let’s pray it will never come back. What happened in Asia though in general? To be honest, in my perception it was always Africa where people starved.
Not that surprised here. I forgot the source, but I think the world now produces enough food to feed ~11 billion people. With a current world population of about ~8 billion, it’s a truly said thing to know that people are still starving while they could *literally* live off our food waste.
Strange how U SAID was started in 1961 and shortly after that the death rate in countries that needed aid dropped significantly.
The insane drop in Asia after the 1960s was due to the “Green Revolution” lead by the development of the IR8 rice strain. It was shorter which made it resistant to lodging, allowing it to bear heavier loads of grain without falling over this producing a lot more.
Not strictly a famine, but Golden Rice, the most important GMO of all time, was another strain was engineered in the 1990s to produce beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency was a leading cause of death in Asia at the time. These two rice developments are considered the most important in food science in history by lives saved, particularly in India.
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That’s a weird way of saying “famine deaths increase over 20 years.”
I believe that massive spike in the ‘60s was almost exclusively due to Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”. Which was said to have killed upwards of 55M within a 4 year period of ‘58-‘62. Crazy stuff.
Communism sure killed a lot of people. Let’s pray it will never come back. What happened in Asia though in general? To be honest, in my perception it was always Africa where people starved.
Not that surprised here. I forgot the source, but I think the world now produces enough food to feed ~11 billion people. With a current world population of about ~8 billion, it’s a truly said thing to know that people are still starving while they could *literally* live off our food waste.
Strange how U SAID was started in 1961 and shortly after that the death rate in countries that needed aid dropped significantly.
The insane drop in Asia after the 1960s was due to the “Green Revolution” lead by the development of the IR8 rice strain. It was shorter which made it resistant to lodging, allowing it to bear heavier loads of grain without falling over this producing a lot more.
Not strictly a famine, but Golden Rice, the most important GMO of all time, was another strain was engineered in the 1990s to produce beta-carotene, which the body converts into vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency was a leading cause of death in Asia at the time. These two rice developments are considered the most important in food science in history by lives saved, particularly in India.
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