Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Food



We all know that we are able to produce food for everyone and that a large part of the population remains undernourished (as graphic shows).

Most of the countries agreed that food access is a human right and some of them included it in their constitution.
This is far from being sufficient, right to food is for instance included in the Bangladesh's constitution but more that 20% of its population suffer from hunger.

The origin of the problem lies in the definition of "right to food".
For the FAO (that is for the UN), the right to food does not mean that the states have to provide food to every human but merely that they should not forbid their citizen to access food.
This implies that a rich country is not committed to give food to a poor country.

But food is a human right, not a "citizen" right.
So a better system should first offer adapted food to its citizens for free and act in all possible means so that non-citizens have access to food.

With our technologies this is possible and we should not wait too much to start ...
the number of undernourished increase every year by 5 millions.

refs: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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