The business of hunger
By: [presented by] Maryknoll ; producer and writer, Robert Richter ; a film by Robert Richter Productions for the Maryknoll missioners
Contributors: Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America; Maryknoll World Productions; Richter Productions; Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland, Calif.)
Series: CLD 667 (NU course)
Publisher: Maryknoll World Video; Institute for Food and Development Policy [distributor]
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Maryknoll, NY; San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Food supply; Small Farms; International business enterprises; Agriculture; Economic conditions; Social conditions
Description: 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.
Notes: "Version of PBS TV documentary"--Container label.

Narrator, Ruby Dee ; cinematography, Burleigh Wartes.

Ages 16 through adult.

Issued also as motion picture.

VHS.

American Film Festival Blue Ribbon Award.