It doesn't seem logical does it? But that's sadly how it is. According to figures of the Organization of the United Nations for Alimentation and Agriculture (FAO), there are at least 1,000 million people in the world suffering hunger. The international organizations unit in summit meetings to debate, to come to a consensus, and to determine politics to eradicate such illogical situation, so do many agencies of development. But, contrary to what is hoped and expected, the desperate hunger, far from diminishing, continues increasing, although the production of food is, at present, the highest in the history of humanity.
The root problem seems to be that the existing economic system of today, food is considered like another commodity in the international market and, being so, is subjected to speculation and specified limits. For instance, only 50% of the world production of cereals are destined for human consumption, while the other half is used for animal feed and for producing agro-combustibles. Lots of machines and high tech systems are running beautifully, while babies are born to suffer hunger and people dying with starvation.
In addition, the system of production and commercialisation of food has great social and economical repercussions. Like exportation of labour, the use of systems that cause sanitary crisis, the destruction of local markets, the deterioration of environment with the loss of bio-diversity, the increase of emission of carbon dioxide, and the degradation of the land.
For all that it's time to intervene seriously, implicating ourselves actively, learn all possible information and prepare ourselves, demanding the installation of effective politics, and of international organisms, with solid competence to safeguard the human rights to adequate food, and penalize those who assail such right.
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