There will be millions of hungry people around the world during the very near-foreseeable future. Reasons quoted are: the surging demand for quality food from the millions of prosperous, “bulging” middle class in India and China; increasing food prices and non-affordability of poor to buy the food items; discontinued export of food grains from these countries; us of farmlands for growing raw materials for bio-fuels in western and European countries; drop in food crop yields due to global warming and loss/wastage of food grains due to climate change disasters all over the world.
The immediate measures by governmental and other responsible agencies are required to boost food security particularly in poor nations. The agriculture sector should be bolstered with government and public investment to increase production of food crops, bio-fuel production should not be permitted in farm lands and finally, the public distribution system should be cleansed of corruption and upgraded so that the poor section of population is able to get the full benefit of the government subsidy.
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