This trend is seen in countries that have experienced rapid economic growth during the last two decades, most notably China and India, A further recent trend is the switch in land use from food production to crops for the biofuel industry (See UNCTAD report www.uncted.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=4526&lang=1). The effect of this is to reduce surpluses produced by developed countries that can be sold on global markets and take fertile land out of food production for local markets. Such evidence leads opponents of the orthodox approach to ague that we need to look much more closely at the social, political, and economic factors that determine hoe food is distributed and why access to it is achieved by some and denied to others.