Thank you everyone for taking time to have a listen and give me some feedback. TF you are right Africa has big potential to grow food but poor management and corruption has ruined many farms over there. Around the world because of industrialization leading to loss of agricultural land, population growth, and the demand for more meat instead of grain as China’s incomes rise. China is projected to need to import 240 million tons of food annually by the year 2030. Yet, total world agricultural trade is currently just 200 million tons of grain or grain equivalent, and that amount is decreasing as the exporting countries consume more and more of their own food products. Water tables on every continent are falling, as water is pumped out at far greater rates than rainwater can replenish in order to provide irrigation for agriculture. I think food producers in the future will benifit financially from the Chinese market only if there is a balance of trade.
Most economies need exports or foreign currency in order make their countries have a standard of living.
It is claimed that 78% of children who are malnourished under 5 years of age live in countries with food surpluses. Global food loss and waste amount to between one-third and one-half of all food produced.
Prices paid for food are determined globally while the cost of food is determined locally.
Since the World Trade Organisation was established, world hunger has increased Export crop production has become the focus in many agricultural societies.
International corporations control food resources. In the past as well as today developing countries are used to supply more affluent nations with CHEAP resources and agricultural products.
The majority of large scale tobacco, coffee, production is done in countries that we would consider to be developing.
Countries with high rates of poverty and malnutrition, and poor health care.
Countries where agricultural lands would be better used to grow food rather than cash crops to be exported to wealthier nations.
The problem we have faced from economic globalization is the intensifying unequal distribution of employment and income.
The World Bank states that the world food supply in 1994 could have fed 6.4 billion people so hunger stems not necessarily from lack of food, but also for economic and political reasons. The world produces enough grain to feed every person at least 3,500 calories a day yet 800 million people in the world are hungry. Three fourths of people who are hungry live in Asia, Africa, or Latin America
Back on my mother's family and tribal Island of Ovalau in Fiji most of the people who live on that island don’t have much money but are rich. The reason is because no one goes hungry or homeless and there is fresh water and good education and the health care is ok. People fish and grow food, money and posession are not a big part of the culture there. Visitors sometimes see them as poor but the people there consider themselves wealthy. Sorry about my long rave, but I think the World Trade Organisation and the United Nations has made things worse for most countries..
Having written all that my song is just me putting these two tourists comments I heard talking about their town the other day into a simple Blues form.
Thank you for your time and encouragement my friends.
