"Freeing Latin America and the Caribbean from hunger"
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2008/1000780/index.html
In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than 52 million people -- 10 percent of the region's population -- suffer from malnutrition or hunger. Yet paradoxically the region is the biggest exporter of food on the planet. This illustrates that the main cause of undernutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean is not a lack of food-production capacity, but poor distribution of and access to food.
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The Latin America and the Caribbean without Hunger Initiative works on three fronts:
* Raising awareness regarding the problem of hunger and the right to food and promoting cross-sector responses.
* Enhancing national capacities to carry out public policies and programmes aimed at eliminating hunger and ensuring the right to food. This is being achieved through training to improve understanding of the scope of the hunger problem and build knowledge on programmes, policies, projects and methods of fighting it.
* Promoting monitoring of food and nutritional security (FNS) in the region and conducting analysis and systematization in order to expand national FNS programmes.
DominicGee
Very interesting, I've often found that the notion that the planet is over-populated has an edge of elitism about it i.e., there's not too many people, there's too many POOR people - let's have less people but of a higher quality. Thanks for proving that there needn't be a cull of the poor and needy... and that frankly, the people that are a burden to us are the so-called elite - bankers, politicians and despots.