Food crisis

It is becoming clear by the day that the present food crisis is compounded by developed nations’ restrictive and skewed policies towards to the developing and under-developed countries. Many experts at FAO organised conference at Rome echoed this sentiment.
While several factors have helped push up the cost of food, the scarcity of food in developing and under developed economies is squarely due to the subsidies of the so called economic north. Cheap exports of wheat, corn and rice from the rich West have devastated local agriculture to the extent that local farming is fast disappearing due to mounting losses in agriculture.
There is no shortage of agricultural land or farmers in the world. Instead what is lacking is the will of national governments to support agriculture and end to cheap subsidies. Let UN and other world organisations wake up to these faulty policies of the developed countries and speak up for the less privileged.

Kuppuswamy Thiyagarajan
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