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The Global Struggle for Food

1961 28 min

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A progress report on efforts to find new ways of feeding the Earth's swelling population. Water control, land redistribution and agricultural advances of all kinds are shown as examples of gains being made to stem the tide of hunger.

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A progress report on efforts to find new ways of feeding the Earth's swelling population. Water control, land redistribution and agricultural advances of all kinds are shown as examples of gains being made to stem the tide of hunger.

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Developing Countries

Agriculture

Food and Food Industries

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Credits

• producer
  Donald Fraser
  
• executive producer
  Nicholas Balla
  
• writer
  Gordon Burwash
  
• editing
  Réjane Charpentier
  
  George Kaczender
  
  Dennis Sawyer
  
• sound editing
  Bernard Bordeleau
  
  Victor Merrill
  
  Michael McKennirey
  
• re-recording
  George Croll
  
  Ted Haley
  
• animation
  René Jodoin
  
  Kaj Pindal
  
• narrator
  Stanley Burke
  

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