One major concern of the Third World, with its emotional and moralistic overtones, is the production and distribution of food. Unfortunately, however, the world food situation is very complex and any over-simplification is counter-productive. This article confronts the myths with the facts...

The purpose of this paper is to update the information on net food importing countries, using different definitions of food, separating countries by their level of income, whether they are in conflict and whether they are significant oil exporters. The study also estimates the changes in net...

Exports of processed foods from developing countries have expanded rapidly in recent times, contributing to those countries’ development. Recent research has shown that the developing country exporter’s ‘openness’ and agricultural resource endowment offered significant explanations of...