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Ravinder Makhaik

Ravinder Makhaik — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Rolande Hodel, you make a strong case against WTO policies.

Charity is least on the agenda when something is provided free.

Direct food aid at places does kills local farming communities, but climate change is changing cropping patterns so much that fertile lands are fast turning barren.

Through it all sustainable economic development is the way forward for most of the impoverished and deprived communities.

Stephan

Stephan — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

there are so many reasons that can be held responsible fr the global food crises. the world now is over populated and the poor are themselves to blame. refusing to control the size of their families cause hunger to their children.the world can no longer support the growth that is at breakneck speed.who will help them if they donot want to help themselves.how can one give if one has not enough for oneself?act now or you will regret.

MJ

MJ — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yes u are right in saying that the overpopulation is among the main problem everything today stemming from, but it is not the problem? A simple solution would be to have decreased birth rates for many years in a row. This would open up niches and jobs for many people. Consumption of resources would go down, etc. Point and case: too many people on the planet, from an ecological perspective.

Ravinder Makhaik

Ravinder Makhaik — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Stephan, I differ with your view that the poor are themselves to blame for not restricting their family size.

Their is a view that poor go for over-sized families because each new member becomes a early bread earner, while in a middle class family, a new child is a liability till s/he finishes education and secures a job.

The argument also points out that with the mortality high in poor undernourished families, the chances of the line continuing increase if there are large number of children.

I don’t subscribe to poor having large families but researchers have thrown up these findings, which cannot be dismissed.

Jas

Jas — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

ha ha ha. this is like flying without wings. overpopulation is surely among the problems that are adding to food crises. But how the ppl here cam miss the other ones like too many cars, and major among the all is Diverting food for fuel? How crazy can we get?

Brunel

Brunel — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

don’t you think the biggest one is: developing countries fail to balance between industrialization and the development of farming techniques. The farming techniques practiced nowadays by farmers in developing countries has not evolved much over the generations. These inefficient techniques cannot keep the output up with the global population growth, and further cripples the global output with increasing number of farmers in developing worlds shifting away from the low return farming and joining the higher paid manufacturing industry.

Gibson

Gibson — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

there is no food crises at all. there is no fuel shortage as such. but it’s nothing the nations that are running short of food could do when there is no proper distribution, transportation and storage, as well as reduction in the waste of food of course. we need to concentrate on these issues to solve the larger part of the problem.

Victor

Victor — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All these crises are engineered and staged indeed. Keep people in fear and a wee bit hungry, and it becomes so easy to control them. Remember the nuclear scare? thus the cold war, and oil crisis in the 70’s and again in the 80’s? We’re heading down that same path again, people forget soon and are easily manipulated. The people up top are bored and need more money to play with, so they come knocking on our doors to see if we are in a giving mood, and considering that we’ve been told the end of the world is near, we keep on paying more and more

Jessica Kim

Jessica Kim — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

In any case, whatever the reason for the food crisis or for the dismissal of the Direct Food Aid model, it is refreshing to think that this problem is being addressed. Hopefully as a result, the Green Revolution will help spur economic development. After all, direct food aid was only putting a band-aid on the problem.

Here is a link with videos and transcripts of the conference:

http://www.salzburgseminar.org/2008/aai.cfm