April 29, 2008
food crisis
Recently, I was listening to a NPR special on the food crisis. One speaker believed that globalization was one of the sources of the current food crisis. Simply, why grow one's own food when you can buy it from another country cheaper? Then, one country becomes dependent on another country or codependent. Some of profits should have gone to investing in economists who would have told the country's leaders how to minimize themselves from the globalization's ill-effects.
I don't think it's too productive to find blame in the food crisis since it is like being stuck in a Escher painting. Food security is not a new idea; much research has been done on this field.
"It notes that globally enough food is produced to feed the entire world population at a level adequate to ensure that everyone can be free of hunger and fear of starvation." - Wikipedia
Posted by azileretsis at April 29, 2008 03:33 PM
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)