Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "R. Geeta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.

Indeed. The case can be made within and between nations and is 
similarly valid.

Bruce


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