Battling hunger with productionKNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Beginning with
the 1972 crop, increasing exports began to create the
expectation of an era of export-led prosperity for U.S. farmers.
U.S. farmers began to think that they had a responsibility to
increase production and exports so the hungry of the world could
be fed. By: Daryll E. Ray, KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Beginning with the
1972 crop, increasing exports began to create the expectation of
an era of export-led prosperity for U.S. farmers. U.S. farmers
began to think that they had a responsibility to increase
production and exports so the hungry of the world could be fed.
At the time of the World Food Conference in 1974, more than 800
million people out of a world population of 4.2 billion people
were classified as chronically hungry. The participants of the
World Food Conference pledged to eradicate hunger within a
decade. More than 20 years later, the 1996 World Food Summit
pledged to reduce the number of hungry by half by 2015. At the
time, the number of hungr