Britain's Food Supplies

ISBN-13: 9780367275921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 222 str.

K. G. Fenelon

Opis

Originally published in 1952. This fascinating book that examines the statistics deals with such subjects as supplies from home agriculture and from overseas; food consumption; controls, rationing and price regulations, world food supplies, international organizations, and Government purchasing of food.

Spis treści

Preface 1. Retrospect 2. Diversity of Foods 3. Food Consumption Between the First and Second World Wars 4. Food Supply Sources Before the Second World War 5. Effects of the Second World War on Britain’s Sources of Food Supplies 6. Food Consumption During the Second World War 7. Food Controls, Rationing and Price Regulation 8. Government Purchasing of Food 9. Communal Feeding 10. Food Supplies and Consumption Since the War 11. The World’s Food Supplies 12. International Organizations 13. Development Schemes in the Commonwealth and Colonies 14. Prospects for the Future. Statistical Appendix

O autorze

Kevin Fenelon was Director of Statistics and Intelligence at the Ministry of Food in the years after the Second World War.