According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, enough food is produced in the world to provide over 2800 calories a day to everyone - substantially more than the minimum required for good health, and about 18 per cent more calories per person than in the 1960s, despite a significant increase in total population. The fact that there is already enough food to feed the world shows that the food crisis is not a technical problem - it is a social and political problem. Directly through their own market power and indirectly through governments and the World Bank, IMF and World Trade Organisation, they have changed the way food is grown and distributed around the world. Industrial farming in the Third World has produced increasing amounts of food, but at the cost of driving millions off the land and into lives of chronic hunger - and at the cost of poisoning air and water, and steadily decreasing the ability of the soil to deliver the food we need. The regressive food policies that have been imposed on poor countries by the World Bank and IMF are codified and enforced by the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Agriculture. read more