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Killer-of-Lawyers posted:Right now we have a distribution problem. Most people when they talk about future food crises are talking about supply problems. Not that it wouldn't hurt to throw money at the current problems. We could probably solve them in the US budget alone if we had the will. I disagree on the distribution problem. It was shown by Amartaya Sen in "Poverty and Famines, 1981" that major food crisises around the world where driven by a decline in food access not food availability. This is understood as an inability for consumers to buy/grow their food. Causes are usually a lack of input(drought, lack of fertilizer, etc) in agricultural systems or a drop in purchasing power due to economic issues. Untill we have the apocalyptic collapse of global food production that is feared at the moment, Sen's predictions on the causes for famines will likely hold true.
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whitey delenda est posted:I'm confused by this post, the guy you respond to says that supply isn't really an issue (it's not, seriously, we have calories coming out our ears... of corn), you disagree, and then you say that some author supports the idea that supply isn't an issue? We agree that enough calories are produced to feed people. What I then try to say is that even though we have enough calories, even doing famines, the reason people starve is better explained by a lack of access to food rather than the availability of food. Put simply, people starve because they can't afford food, not because there is no food available to them. For my use of food availability and food access I use the terms as they are described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security#Pillars_of_food_security I hope I managed to make my point clearer and not make it anymore muddled.
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