Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"R. Geeta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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.

Quite so. I guess I have the general and continuing fall in commodity 
(in this case food) prices generally in the back of my mind  ... 
meaning or implying that we have lots of it (or the price would be 
higher).

As you say, most systems are by no means simple and are usually 
changing as well just to complicate matters :)

Bruce

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