Johann Hari Quotes
Famine, it turns out, is not caused by a failure to produce food. It is caused by a failure to distribute food correctly — because the ruler is not accountable to the starving.
Johann Hari, Writter & Blogger, “Famine, the Unnecessary Evil”, New York Times Book Review, September 18, 1911
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The president was right. There is enough food to go around. The problem however is logistical, economic, and political. Some countries use food as a weapon to keep their own people under control. The major problem is the distribution of the food. It has to be transported from where it is gown to where it should be consumed. Much food in the third world rots because the transportation system cannot move the food efficiently enough. Even when food is donated to nations, the free or cheap food undercuts the local farmers who go out of business and there is even less food the following year.
Often referred to as “Father of the Green Revolution” for his contributions to food growing throughout the world
The “inputs” her refers to are fertilizer, water, pesticides, equipment, transportation and energy for these. See {631857} for another way of phrasing this.
England had a high protective tariff called the "Corn Laws" which artificially maintained a high price of grain. Cobden had made a condolence call to a wealthy friend whose wife had just died. In a dramatic call to public service:. The friend joined Cobden and their team traveled throughout England arguing their case. As a result of their efforts the Corn Laws were repealed saving tens of thousands of lives and the friend became one of England's most illustrious politicians.
This is exactly what happened in Scotland, and accounts for the large number of Scottish emigrants who populated many countries of the world.
From a technical and production point of view, there is no practical limit to population size that is imposed by food production. We can produce sufficient food for the world even if population increases dramatically. None the less, even today we have some starvation and much malnutrition problems. These however are political, economic and tend to be distributional. We can produce the food. Morris does NOT advocate large population growth. Although food need not be a problem with an expanding population, job availability, medical care, energy, land, natural resources, ethnic hatred, migration, violence, and other problems are produced by population growth.
Johann Eduard Hari is a British-Swiss writer and journalist. He has written for publications including The Independent and The Huffington Post, and has written books on the topics of depression, the war on drugs, and the British monarchy.
