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Can famine be stopped?

The world probably produces enough food to feed all of its inhabitants. Agriculture in developed
parts of the world is extremely efficient. Even so, as many as 15% of the world's inhabitants suffer
from malnutrition because the available food is not evenly distributed among the world's
population. Some people believe that all surplus food from developed countries should be made
available to poorer countries, but many others (including EU agricultural ministers) argue that aid
to poorer people should be mainly in the form of education and farming equipment. Direct food aid
should only be reserved for disaster situations, such as the earthquake in Nepal and flooding in
Bangladesh, where many individuals would quickly die if food were not made available. The
problem of unequal food distribution is outlined in the diagram below.

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