The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions

For HungerWednesday! we feature this nice read from Fred Magdoff at the MonthlyReview.org as he examines the causes of the global food crisis and proposes solutions. Interesting reading indeed!
An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates.
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