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Originally Posted by octothorp
Well, I guess it's a matter of symantics. The food exists. Much of it is even earmarked for famine relief. But the cost and logistics of getting it into various regions in a reasonable time are such that the UN body responsible for it is unable to do so effectively, in part because it's too expensive and in part because various governments of third world countries are unwilling to give the UN the access necessary to make a difference.
So you could say that there are delivery issues caused by lack of political/economic will, or you could say that there's a lack of political economic will as a result of the complexities regarding delivery.
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And with the cost of the underlying commodity rising, even less will make it for transport.
Your right technically the planet may not be short food, but it is definately short economically feasable food. And this is a huge step back ... again because we buy big a$$ houses and now want to subsidize the cost of it.