We actually produce more food per person now than at any other time in history.

We do have an inequitable distribution of food in some parts of the world.

Whenever we see 'news images' of starvation, the underlying causes of shortage are human conflicts; e.g. Somalia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Rawanda etc... all caused by internal war conflicts.

Be careful Australians - this is nothing more than America's attempt to introduce GM into the food chain by using emotive language such as 'third world', 'developing countries', 'unable to meet minimum nutrition standards' etc..

Surely trying to keep food prices low will be a disincentive to increased food production.

The worst thing that a developed country can do to a country suffering food shortage is to dump subsidised agricultural surplus onto the undeveloped country market.

This depresses the prices that the farmers in the undeveloped country receive.

A farmer from Northern Africa told me he had set up a tomato production as a demonstration of advanced drip irrigation.

When it came time to harvest his beautiful crop using local labour, there were containers of subsidised canned Italian tomatoes delivered to his local city markets and this caused the price of tomatoes to crash such that it was not even worth harvesting the tomatoes.

The self help project was abandoned.

Earl Ricpe.