Today's Independent makes grim reading:
Today should have been a day for a celebratory feast. Exactly 10 years ago 176 world leaders at the World Food Summit pledged to halve the number of undernourished people by 2015.
Instead it is a day for commiseration and recrimination. More than 850 million are still hungry - some 18 million more than in 1996.
The article cites some statistics at the end:
Food facts
* 852 million people still go hungry. In 1990 the figure was 824 million
* Six million children die from hunger each year
* We have enough food to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories per person per day
The reason for failure is placed on lack of investment, lack of political will - everything but the way society is organised. Given there is no problem in providing a sufficient diet for everyone, perhaps we should be looking at a different solution?
(The rest of the article is here.)
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