Food security in developing countries why government action is needed.

Global food supplies are sufficient to meet the calorie requirements of all people if food were distributed according to needs. Per capita food supplies are projected to increase further over the next twenty years. (1) Thus, the world food problem now and in the foreseeable future is not one of global shortage. Instead, the world is faced with three main food-related challenges: widespread hunger and malnutrition, mismanagement of natural resources in food production, and obesity. This article deals with the first two only.

While rapidly increasing yields per unit of land in large parts of East and Southeast Asia, the United States and parts of Europe reduced the expansion of agriculture into new lands and had positive effects on biodiversity, wildlife, soils and forests, they also introduced large quantities of chemical pesticides and caused water and soil degradation. In many other areas, including sub-Saharan Africa, stagnating yields combined with rapid population growth forced farmers into new lands poorly suited for agri...

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