Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Jim Webster wrote:
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> "Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >"Torsten Brinch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >just as the EU is cutting food production
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> > Production is not the problem ... it's the distribution :)
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> 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.

Presumably Bruce SInclair's response was in reference to the hungering
nations. That may be unequally applicable to different nations: In India,
where there are many hungry people, at this point production is not the
problem--distribution, rather poor access due to lack of purchasing power,
is.

--Geeta