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The Role of Food in the International Affairs of the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Joseph D. Coffey
Joseph D. Coffey*
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Virginia Tech. Blacksburg, Virginia
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From the early 1600s, when tobacco exports literally saved the struggling Jamestown settlement, to the January 4, 1980, embargo of grain to the Soviet Union, food and agriculture have played varied roles in international affairs of the U.S., that is, in the political, military, economic, and cultural exchanges that affect the power of the U.S. relative to other sovereign nations. Food donations have been used as a humanitarian gesture to avert starvation. Food export embargoes have been used as weapons against foreign adversaries and domestic scarcities. Food pledges have been used to promote international food aid conventions. Food import quotas have been reallocated to reward friendly nations and penalize unfriendly ones. U.S. food shipments have been used to feed Allied soldiers and to barter for strategic materials. Food exports have been used to bolster the domestic economy and strengthen the dollar.

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Research Article
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , July 1981 , pp. 29 - 37
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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