12 Facts About Food distribution

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Food distribution is the process where a general population is supplied with food.

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2.

Food distribution has been a defining characteristic of human behavior in all societies, and recordings of food distribution date back for thousands of years.

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Two recent examples of war and economic failure impacting food distribution includes the decline of food distribution in Japan during World War II and food recession in Sub-Saharan Africa during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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In both cases, food distribution was hindered and the population in these areas consequently suffered.

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5.

The United States' food distribution system is vast in size and strength, and is dominated by corporations and industry.

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6.

Food distribution established the position of praefectus annonae, Prefect of the Annona.

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7.

Food distribution primarily relied on small, local farms in the 1940s, but quickly grew to become a large business in the 1960s.

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Two prominent examples of risk factors' negative effect on a society's food distribution system are the situation in Japan during World War II and Africa during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Japanese food distribution drastically decreased from the effects of World War Two and the country's economic shortcomings.

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10.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the food distribution crisis of the 1970s and 1980s was a result of a multitude of food distribution risk factors including political problems, economic failures, and weather conditions.

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Organizations that are founded to target food insecurity have relied on food distribution to serve people in need of regular nutritious foods.

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12.

Food distribution banks are the proper term to call these kind of organizations where they use "government sector, private sector, and civil society" to distribute and recover food that will ultimately go to waste.

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