GEOG10001 Lecture 5: GEOG10001 - W5L2
28 Jul 2018
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Recap: keys to increasing food production in china. Do more to classify, protect and preserve quality arable land. Research into plant genetics, biotechnology, and breeding research. Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside korem, it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the twentieth century. This place, say workers here, is the closest thing to hell on earth. Thousands of wasted people are coming here for help. They flood in every day from villages hundreds of miles away, dulled by hunger, driven beyond the point of desperation - Michael buerk, bbc news reporting from korem, ethiopia. Shift of climate zones 200-300 km south. Oil countries had profited (egypt, libya, algeria, nigeria, gabon, angola) Main commodities (exports) decreased in price (coffee, cocoa, sugar, copper) Many countries in debt (imf tried to reconcile) Partly based on the policy of famine eradication. 1980"s autocratic government, used a soviet model of collectivisation, villagisation".
