Why Do So Many Starve When There's Enough Land And Now Bio-Technology To Feed Us All?
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care according to article 25 of the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Fine words, but more than 60 years on hundreds of thousands still face malnutrition, near-starvation and inadequate shelter and not only in the developing world.
For a significant part of the year the UK, for example, is a cold country so those living on inadequate incomes are faced with a choice between buying enough food and staying warm.
About two million pensioners (18%) live below the poverty line (a weekly income of