Monday, March 23, 2015

Apparently we are doing a great job reducing hunger !

According to the International Food Policy Research Institute the world is doing an increasingly good job of reducing hunger and extreme poverty.  I am sure that we can find plenty of differences of opinion as to how that feat is being accomplished.  My money is on smallholders getting better access to nitrate fertilizer and improved varieties of staple crops like wheat and rice.  Better productivity near where food is consumed reduces waste, price, and spoilage in transit while increasing local revenue and the percentage of food consumed.  

World Food Security Overview in 1990


World Food Security Overview in 2014


Source for the above maps
 http://www.ifpri.org/tools/2014-ghi-map


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