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Solving World Hunger Means Solving World Poverty
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by Anup ShahThis Page Last Updated Sunday, October 24, 2010
This page: http://www.globalissues.org/article/8/solving-world-hunger-means-solving-world-poverty.
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The current Summit [World Food Summit: Fives Years Later] was called by the United Nations to examine why hunger persists despite the 1996 Plan of Action. Progress has lagged by at least 60% behind the goals for the first five years, and today conditions are worsening in much of the world. Without a drastic reorientation of policies, it will be impossible to meet the 2015 goal, and hunger may actually increase. While official documents prepared for the meeting decry a “lack of will” and call for “more resources” to be directed at reducing hunger, the fact is that more fundamental changes are needed.
— Peter Rosset, The World Food Summit: What Went Wrong?, June 4, 2002
This web page has the following sub-sections:
Hunger And Poverty Are Related Issues
Food As A Human Right
Solving Hunger Effectively Requires Addressing Causes Of Poverty
Hunger And Poverty Are Related Issues
A common, often altruistic, theme amongst many is to be able to solve world hunger via some method that may produce more food. However, often missed is the relationship between poverty and hunger. Hunger is an effect of poverty and poverty is largely a political issue. (While manifesting itself as an economic issue, conditions causing poverty are political and end up being economic.)
As shown in the Genetically Engineered Food and Human Population sections on this web site, people are hungry not due to lack of availability of food, but because people do not have the ability to purchase food and because distribution of food is not equitable. In addition, there is also a lot of politics influencing how food is produced, who it is produced by (and who benefits), and for what purposes the food is produced (such as exporting rather than for the hungry, feedstuff, etc.)
[A]ccess to food and other resources is not a matter of availability, but rather of ability to pay. Put bluntly, those with the most money command the most resources, whilst those with little or no money go hungry. This inevitably leads to a situation whereby some sections of humanity arguably have too much and other sections little or nothing. Indeed, globally the richest 20 per cent of humanity controls around 85 per cent of all wealth, whilst the poorest 20 per cent control only 1.5 per cent.
— Ross Copeland, The Politics of Hunger, September 2000
Peter Rosset, co-director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, quoted at the top of this page, highlights some of the wider issues around hunger. He argues that it is not just a challenge of producing more and more food, but there are many political and economic issues underscoring the problems:
Research carried out by our Institute reveals that since 1996, governments have presided over a set of policies that have conspired to undercut peasant, small and family farmers, and farm cooperatives in nations both North and South. These policies have included runaway trade liberalization, pitting family farmers in the Third World against the subsidized corporate farms in the North (witness the recent U.S. Farm Bill), forcing Third World countries to eliminate price supports and subsidies for food producers, the privatization of credit, the excessive promotion of exports to the detriment of food crops, the patenting of crop genetic resources by corporations who charge farmers for their use, and a bias in agricultural research toward expensive and questionable technologies like genetic engineering while virtually ignoring pro-poor alternatives like organic farming and agroecology.
— Peter Rosset, The World Food Summit: What Went Wrong?, June 4, 2002
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Food As A Human Right
Reporting from the World Food Summit 2002, and highlighting some shocking obstacles to getting a declaration on tackling these issues, Peter Rosset reported on day one:
ROME—At 3:00 AM on Monday morning the United States stood alone among all nations of the world in blocking further discussion of the draft text of the declaration that governments will sign at the World Food Summit. What was leading the U.S. to stop the all night negotiating session? First, the U.S. wanted all references to “food as a human right” to be deleted, and second, the U.S. wanted strong language saying that genetically modified (GM) crop
เว็บไซต์นี้ใช้คุกกี้เพื่อให้คุณได้รับประสบการณ์ที่ดีที่สุด ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมปัญหาระดับโลกปัญหาสังคม การเมือง เศรษฐกิจ และสิ่งแวดล้อมที่มีผลต่อเราทั้งหมดค้นหาไซต์นี้ค้นหาได้รับการปรับปรุงฟรีผ่านอีเมลเว็บ/RSS ฟีดFacebookทวิตเตอร์เมนูหลัก:บ้านเกี่ยวกับปัญหาข่าวโลกการสนับสนุนติดต่อหิว HomeIssuesArticlesSolving โลกหมายถึง การแก้ปัญหาความยากจนของโลกแก้หิวแก้ความยากจนของโลกหมายความว่าเมื่อโลกผู้เขียนและข้อมูลหน้าโดยอานัป ShahThis หน้าอัพเดทล่าสุดวันอาทิตย์ 24 ตุลาคม 2010หน้านี้: http://www.globalissues.org/article/8/solving-world-hunger-means-solving-world-povertyการพิมพ์บันทึกย่อด้านข้อมูลเช่น การขยายตัวทั้งหมด แสดงการเชื่อมโยงอื่น ใช้รุ่นพิมพ์:http://www.globalissues.org/print/article/8ยอดปัจจุบัน [สุดยอดอาหารโลก: Fives ปีหลัง] ถูกเรียกว่าสหประชาชาติเพื่อตรวจสอบเหตุผลความหิวอยู่แม้ปี 1996 โดยใช้แผนการดำเนินงาน ความคืบหน้ามี lagged น้อย 60% หลังเป้าหมายสำหรับห้าปีแรก และวันนี้เงื่อนไขมีมากในโลก โดยไม่ต้องการกลไกเท่านโยบายรุนแรง จะไม่สามารถบรรลุเป้าหมาย 2015 และจริงอาจเพิ่มความหิว ในขณะที่เอกสารทางเตรียมการประชุม decry "ไม่มีของจะ" และเรียก "ทรัพยากรเพิ่มเติม" เพื่อเชื่อมโยงในการลดความหิว ความจริงก็คือ ว่า จะต้องเปลี่ยนแปลงพื้นฐานมาก— ปีเตอร์ Rosset สุดยอดอาหารของโลก: อะไรผิด?, 4 มิถุนายน 2002This web page has the following sub-sections:Hunger And Poverty Are Related IssuesFood As A Human RightSolving Hunger Effectively Requires Addressing Causes Of PovertyHunger And Poverty Are Related IssuesA common, often altruistic, theme amongst many is to be able to solve world hunger via some method that may produce more food. However, often missed is the relationship between poverty and hunger. Hunger is an effect of poverty and poverty is largely a political issue. (While manifesting itself as an economic issue, conditions causing poverty are political and end up being economic.)As shown in the Genetically Engineered Food and Human Population sections on this web site, people are hungry not due to lack of availability of food, but because people do not have the ability to purchase food and because distribution of food is not equitable. In addition, there is also a lot of politics influencing how food is produced, who it is produced by (and who benefits), and for what purposes the food is produced (such as exporting rather than for the hungry, feedstuff, etc.)[A]ccess to food and other resources is not a matter of availability, but rather of ability to pay. Put bluntly, those with the most money command the most resources, whilst those with little or no money go hungry. This inevitably leads to a situation whereby some sections of humanity arguably have too much and other sections little or nothing. Indeed, globally the richest 20 per cent of humanity controls around 85 per cent of all wealth, whilst the poorest 20 per cent control only 1.5 per cent.— Ross Copeland, The Politics of Hunger, September 2000Peter Rosset, co-director of the Institute for Food and Development Policy, quoted at the top of this page, highlights some of the wider issues around hunger. He argues that it is not just a challenge of producing more and more food, but there are many political and economic issues underscoring the problems:Research carried out by our Institute reveals that since 1996, governments have presided over a set of policies that have conspired to undercut peasant, small and family farmers, and farm cooperatives in nations both North and South. These policies have included runaway trade liberalization, pitting family farmers in the Third World against the subsidized corporate farms in the North (witness the recent U.S. Farm Bill), forcing Third World countries to eliminate price supports and subsidies for food producers, the privatization of credit, the excessive promotion of exports to the detriment of food crops, the patenting of crop genetic resources by corporations who charge farmers for their use, and a bias in agricultural research toward expensive and questionable technologies like genetic engineering while virtually ignoring pro-poor alternatives like organic farming and agroecology.— Peter Rosset, The World Food Summit: What Went Wrong?, June 4, 2002Back to topFood As A Human RightReporting from the World Food Summit 2002, and highlighting some shocking obstacles to getting a declaration on tackling these issues, Peter Rosset reported on day one:ROME—At 3:00 AM on Monday morning the United States stood alone among all nations of the world in blocking further discussion of the draft text of the declaration that governments will sign at the World Food Summit. What was leading the U.S. to stop the all night negotiating session? First, the U.S. wanted all references to “food as a human right” to be deleted, and second, the U.S. wanted strong language saying that genetically modified (GM) crop
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