Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
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> >"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
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> >> >> Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says
> >> >> USAgNet - 11/25/2003
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> >> >just as the EU is cutting food production
> >>
> >> Production is not the problem ... it's the distribution :)
> >
> >yes and no.
> >
> >Currently we have large stocks of food, so distribution is a problem
> >But grain production has been less than demand for (from memory) the last
> >four or five years. Those large stocks are shrinking.
> >The EU has cut set-aside to 5% from 10%, they reckon this will bring in
> >about another 7 million tons.
> >However the CAP reform will almost certainly lead to a fall in grain
> >production, unless the world market price remains at current levels.
>
> I suspect that the reason for cuts is to push the price up. That's
> what oil producers do ... just produce less if you want more
> bucks/barrel :)

there are a handful of big oil companies who can determine the market, a
group of member states who get together and plan these things. I forget how
many million grain producers there are.

In the EU with CAP reform the land could well go out of agriculture into
timber or such things as pony paddocks etc

Jim Webster

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