Increased food production is not the solution for World Food Sarcity !!!

World hunger is extensive in spite of sufficient global food resources. Therefore increased food production is no solution. "The problem is that many people are too poor to buy readily available food". Therefore measures solving the poverty problem is what is required to solve the world hunger problem. But focusing narrowly on increasing production cannot alleviate hunger because it fails to alter the tightly concentrated distribution of economic power that determines who can buy the additional foodThe real problem is poverty. As the market responds to money and not to actual need, it can only work to eliminate hunger when purchasing power is widely dispersed

As the rural poor are increasingly pushed from land, they are less and less able to demand for food on the market. Promoting free trade to alleviate hunger has proven to be a failure. In most developing countries exports have boomed while hunger has continued unabated or actually worsened. The best example is India. The food grain production of the country had increased to around 220 million tonnes. The food godowns of the country are flooding with grains. But still 22% (offical figure) of the population is living below poverty line. Thousands of people are dying out of starvation. At the same time the offtake from the public distribution system is very low.
As the market responds to money and not to actual need, it can only work to eliminate hunger when purchasing power is widely dispersed
The world could feed itself if food policies were based on facts an not on myths as presently. The fact is that there is no scarcity of food. The real reason for the world hunger problem is poverty.
The worst-affected, predictably, are the low-income, food-deficit countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, who face an unaffordable 25 per cent rise in their food bill in just one year.

Given high levels of exposure to world markets, food price increases directly affect purchasing power, increasing the incidence of poverty, as well as government expenditure and debt. A deteriorationof the terms of trade may destabilize the economy and hindereconomic growth.