Food must not be reduced to security

The world food system today is far too complex for common sense to understand. It raises many questions: If safe, nutritious food is a fundamental right, why are one billion people living with hunger? Why do farmers and farm workers remain starved/half-starved? Why are people in food-exporting countries living with hunger? If the value of annual global exports in agriculture products is in billions, why are agricultural labourers and farmers in the highest level of global poverty? More than half the world’s workforce is engaged in agricultural production — why, then, are their working conditions killing their well-being? Women farmers often complain: “The food we produce we do not eat, the food we eat we do not produce!” Something is fundamentally wrong in our approach to food and hunger.

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