The Business of Hunger

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Intended audience: Ages 16 through adult

Issued also as videorecording

Examines a major cause of world hunger which is being created when small, native farmers are forced off the land and are replaced by multinational agribusinesses that produce food for export rather than local consumption. Shows scenes of recent food riots in Brazil and the Dominican Republic, starving women and children, and displaced farmers. Includes testimony by religious missionaries in third world countries and comments by representatives of human welfare organizations

Cinematographer, Burleigh Warts ; editors, Peter Kinoy, Tom Crawford

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