Participants at an international food policy conference, "Food Security in a Hungry World", discussed the complex issues surrounding the world food crisis. Food consumption figures from affluent and low-income nations demonstrate that unequal food distribution is one element of the hunger problem. Urbanization also contributes to low agricultural productivity, to unbalanced income distribution, to a shift toward growing grain for feed rather than food, and to higher food prices. Poor countries can increase food production, but only with huge capital investments supplied by industrialized nations and with government development of needed programs. Thus, inadequate food production results from economic and social underdevelopment. Transnational corporations, including food companies, may play a role in helping less developed nations. However, these countries must create domestic systems for food production, processing, and distribution.
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