One billion people are hungry

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MALNUTRITION - In thirty years, the number of hungry people has doubled ...

As World Food Day takes place today, the symbolic threshold of the billion hungry has been crossed this year, that is to say one person in six in the world. "This is twice as much as thirty years ago," worries François Danel, director general of Action Against Hunger (ACF). Two major factors are involved, according to him: "the economic crisis and global warming", to which is added "the considerable increase in population in areas that were already fragile, like India".

Asia and the Pacific are the most affected, with 642 million people affected, according to a report released Wednesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP). chronic hunger, followed by sub-Saharan Africa (265 million). Developed countries are not spared either: 15 million people are affected by this scourge.

"The problem of food insecurity" is "first of all a question of mobilization at the highest political level so that the necessary financial resources are available," said Jacques Diouf, director general of the FAO. Each year, agricultural support from OECD countries reaches $ 365 billion and spending on armaments $ 1 billion. ”

American economist Jeffrey Sachs recommends “tripling investment” in the world for agriculture and food security, and advocates increased aid to small African farmers in order to move from “an economy subsistence to a sustainable business economy. " Because the paradox is that "70% of people who suffer from hunger are peasants", according to François Danel. For their part, the eight most industrialized countries (G8), meeting in L'Aquila (Italy) in July, pledged to mobilize $ 20 billion over three years to fight hunger in the world. "It remains to be seen whether these promises will be kept," warns ACF.
Faustine Vincent

20 minutes news source

[Ahmed]

… And advocates an increase in aid to small African farms in order to move from “a subsistence economy to a sustainable commercial economy”. Because the paradox is that "70% of people who suffer from hunger are peasants".

The paradox is only apparent and surprises only those who persist in refusing to understand anything, and these 2 juxtaposed sentences contain the question and the answer: it is because the peasants of impoverished countries have gone from one subsistence economy to a commercial economy that they are no longer even able to support themselves!
Subject to competition from agricultural products imported from subsidized farming in northern countries, they are no match and wanting to reinforce these constraints, far from helping them, can only serve them.

Indeed, any intensification of trade in agricultural products on an international level (the must in this matter!) Can only impoverish them a little more, since the terms of these trade are highly unequal and are "lasting" unfavorable to them.

In order for these people to get by, it would be necessary, on the contrary, to leave them alone and not to help them, in any case, not in the manner of the "pavement of the bear".

Under the hypocritical appearance of an altruistic preoccupation hides in reality a Machiavellian and very lucrative policy which one cannot qualify other than as neocolonialist.

[jonule]

hello ahmed,
what do you think of this

www.agriculturegaia.com

[Ahmed]

I have already had the opportunity to watch this kind of ranting ... it's poetry, right?
It is an incomprehensible discourse which hardly encourages to deepen (?) And puts off the reader, however obstinate I think I am.

Why want at all costs to invent a new technique (even if it is full of good feelings like this one (it seems)), when the problem of malnutrition is not technical in nature?

[Lietseu]

+1

You just have to see what we have done with this lake in Africa, where European industrialists have been planted with ... roses, to "provide work for Africans"

As a result, the water that was pure 15 years ago is polluted to death, the level of the lake drops worryingly, the "employees" die en masse thanks to the chemicals spilled in impressive quantities on the flowers (5 to 6x the required dose) and the peasants drink polluted milk, because their cows drink polluted water ...

Thank you, Yann for the positive news from the planet

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