Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

"R. Geeta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Jim Webster wrote:
> >
> > "Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >"Torsten Brinch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > >
> > > >just as the EU is cutting food production
> > >
> > > Production is not the problem ... it's the distribution :)
> >
> > 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.
>
I have no problem with Bruces point, indeed it is one I have put forward
myself. I just point out that with falling output and consumption that is
static or rising, distribution may well not be the only problem.

Jim Webster