More on our previous posts Dying of Hunger we read :-
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , World Bank Managing Director , said
"There is not a global food shortage -- there is a price crisis"
What we say:-
Countries supposedly in the grip of hunger hardly ever have an absolute food shortage, it’s just that the food available is sold to those who can afford to buy it or exported for consumption elsewhere.
The solution is a world where food — like all goods — is produced to satisfy need, not to make a profit. Starvation amid plenty would be quite impossible in a socialist society run along the lines of production for use, where there are no poor people and everyone has free access to what has been produced.
The knowledge and commitment of farmers, scientists and others would be put towards producing enough food for all. This is technically possible now, but capitalism’s profit motive, its wars and rivalries, do not permit abundance to be realised. A society where all work together will have no problem in achieving the potential that humanity has brought about.
Read Food: commodity or need in this month's Socialist Standard
Read also "How we could feed the world"
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