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Preventing hunger: change economic policy

Peter Rosset

Tuesday 29 November 2011 by LRAN

Nature 479, 472–473 (24 November 2011)

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Simply giving people food is not enough to prevent famine, says Peter Rosset. Instead, we need to overhaul the policies that have upended the food supply.

The global food system is broken. The number of hungry and undernourished people in the world hovers at around 1 billion1 and the past few years have seen both worldwide food riots as well as epidemics of obesity and diabetes.