Please read at the website of WFP:

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes (What causes hunger?)

“Food has never before existed in such abundance, so why are 1.02 billion people in the world going hungry?

In purely quantitative terms, there is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 6.7 billion people. And yet, one in nearly seven people is going hungry. One in three children is underweight. Why does hunger exist?”

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“Hunger, in most cases, is caused by lack of money rather than a shortage of food production, according to the World Food Programme (WFP)” :

I found this quote in today’s IRIN’s message : In Brief: World hunger increases despite growth in food production

(see my former posting on this blog).

If this is really the case, my logic tells me : poor people remain hungry because they cannot afford food due to the high food prices.

Shall we make the poor richer to eliminate hunger ?

Or shall we offer them a chance to construct their own family garden, school garden or hospital garden to produce fresh food locally ?

Shall we continue to spend trillions every year at shipping food to the undernourished ?

Or shall we set up cost-effective international aid programs to lay-out at least a small kitchen garden for every family in need ?

Combining traditional methods with cost-effective technologies to create sustainable small-scale farming is nowadays widely accepted as “the policy for a better future”.

For me, lack of money is not the problem, but the choice of the right strategy is.

African and Asian friends, what’s your choice ?  Ships, planes, trains and trucks full of dry or canned food every month, or small gardens full of fresh vegetables and fruits.

But who is listening ?