$30 Billion A Year To Solve Global Food Crisis, UN Says

Resolving the global food crisis could cost as much as $30 billion a year and wealthier nations are doing little to help the developing world face the problem, United Nations officials said Tuesday.

At a UN food summit attended by dozens of world leaders, Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, opened the meeting by sharply criticizing wealthy nations who he said were cutting back on agriculture programs for the world's poor and ignoring deforestation -- while spending billions on carbon markets, subsidies for farmers and biofuel production.

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[only1Demvoter]

Or... Two and a half weeks of subsidizing the BU&HCO Iraq Debacle...

This is a pretty easy choice, Folks. Let's get with it !


More to follow. -ralph

[HereNow]

There is no Food Shortage, only a Distribution issue.
There is enough Grain alone produced on this planet that can supply every human being a 3500 calorie diet a day. That does not count corn, beans, and vegatables.

The Food Distribution channel is governed by Capitalism.
Those with money get the food, those that do not, get the scraps.

Those folks living in the Sands of the middle east do grow food, but will never do without as they can buy the food off of our plates should they have a reason to do so. (hmmm, political advantage oil and food)

The US is the largest producer of food yet, hundreds of thousands of americans go to bed hungery each night. They are generally the poorest among us.

Much of the food stuff produced these days in America and around the world is being used for non nutritional uses such as bio fuels, which in of itself is not bad, but again in the the current enviroment food stuff is sold to the highest bidder.

There is no Food Shortage, its a failure of the the Capitalist Distributuion process.

Capitalism, unchecked, has cause this republic to transform into a Fascist state of global corporate domination without regard for citizens as they have morphed into Stateless entities only beholding to their board of directors and major shareholders

[MNCurler]

There have been hungry and poor people since the founding of this country. How does your comment of unchecked capitalism play into this fact?

[HereNow]

Since the beginining of the use of Money I suspect, but you must be trying to get a riise from me with such a comment.
This country originated with wealth and position granted from the kings and queens of England, Spain and the French amonst others to affluent white men. The hoards of followers such as the germans, irish and italians were used as an exploited undervalued labor force, only to change later to the chinese, emancipated african americans and now the hispanics and yes much of middle america. Corporations do not make wealth by themselves but by previous Charter were in fact a CO-OP of sorts to be dismantled after the project or task was complete. The proceeds going back to all involved.
That did not serve the rich white men of power, so they got their rented legislaters to breathe life into them and now they have more rights than do the citizens.
If you are working for someone, are you accurately valued for you contribution? Do you see all around you valued for their contribution?
Skip all that.
What is youir point?
Are you championing Capitalism as the most important driving force, one in which you support amongst its contributuoins all of its pitfalls and failures?
Surely, as in most things, It is balance, that will provide for All of the planets citizens.