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Article: The Human Food Chain.
- Article from:
- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 1989
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1989 Food Trade Press Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Human Food Chain. Edited by C R W Spedding. 330 pages with index.
This book is the Proceedings of a conference with the title The Food Chain: Forgin The Links, held at the University of Reading in March 1988.
We have got to the stage now where the food chain is very interdependent and runs form the inputs to the primary producer right through to purchase by the final consumer. Perhaps the most obvious one to study is the interface between agriculture and the food industry, and this applies equally to developing countries, although their storage and transport systems are often somewhat lacking, whereas the farmer in such a country often performs the tasks ...