Currently, despite the weakened US economy, the capitalist market with the intrinsic drive for profits has continued to triumph. A long-term solution for world hunger seems illusive as long as the controlling economies and currencies continue to reign over humanity’s needs. It has always been the primary goal of capitalist production to sell food for profit, even when people are starving. Food, unfortunately, is a commodity to be traded like everything else. Thus, it would not be uncommon to witness high prices and large warehouses of grain co- exist side by side with starvation when people are too poor to buy food (Durkin 2008)
Thus, it is understandably apt for the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to describe the current global food crisis as "the greatest demonstration of the historical failure of the capitalist model.