http://green-man-2010.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] green-man-2010.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-05-22 08:11 pm (UTC)

Listen - when are you going to get it that food isn't everything?
Your gren Revolution gives people food. Great1
But what about clean drinking water? all the food in the world is not gonna save you if you are dying of dysentry.

Sanitation? you got that sorted? how about malaria control? you are going to need that in the tropics, i think you will find.

And then,if there is food in the shops, can you afford it?
how are you going to land a decent job if you can't read and write because you never went to school? getting off of the shanty town is big problem for many Brazilians - not famine , just the problems of endemic poverty.

Agricultural advance is just one part of the answer.
And yeah, as has been said, more food to feed more people will not solve the problem unless family planning becomes available to stem population growth.

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