http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8109698.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8109698.stm)
Most of the world's undernourished live in developing countries
One billion people throughout the world suffer from hunger, a figure which has increased by 100 million because of the global financial crisis, says the UN.
The last billion to benefit from world trade and modern science that many believe will allow the earth to support 12 billion.
Mr Diouf urged governments to provide development and economic assistance to boost agriculture, particularly by smallholder farmers.
"Investment in agriculture must be increased because for the majority of poor countries a healthy agricultural sector is essential to overcome poverty and hunger and is a pre-requisite for overall economic growth," he said.
Makes sense to me.
Or Lisa we could reduce population by letting these people starve to death while we do nothing.
Investment beats direct aid. Much of the food aid we send to Hati is either stolen or even worse sits undistributed and rotting in warehouses.
But we must think long term. If one good growing season gives abundant food people have babies. Then the drought 3 years down the road and they starve to death. Aid without responsible birth control and education is only creating more hardship in the future.
Meh, nature balances herself out. All this "OH NOES!! THE WORLD'S COMING TO AN ENDS!!" nonsense is not about the world ending but human's ecosystems becoming imbalanced and causing mass death of human beings.
*shrugs*
Either way, nature will survive fine.
Indeed. Besides the fact that I wouldn't trust the UN to tell me the sky was blue, the simple truth is - and it sounds exceedingly cold to say but it's true - is that millions will die from causes other than old age.
always have, always will.
And it used to be much much worse.
And frankly, when the world community lets millions die because they ban DDT to save some birds (which was bull->-bleeped-<- science anyway) they lose a lot of sympathy from me when they start whining about starvation.
But I digress...