Re: [nukkad] US eats 5 times more than India per capita

[Amir'AliMackwani <>]

why Bush/ Rice do not c this

Maloy Manna wrote:
> The main reasons for the global food inflation doesn't have as much to do 
>with demand side as Bush or Rice suggested. It has more to do with supply side:
> 1. Temporary supply-side issues due to drought in Australia
> 2. Devaluation of US dollar - driving up oil prices - causing ripple effect 
>on transportation and other costs
> 3. Pressure on  food due to bio-fuel diversion, causing decrease in acreage 
>of other crops as well
>
> Of course, US, Japan and Europe continue to provide huge subsidies to their 
>farmers, which has made agriculture unsustainable and inefficient in most 
>developing and poor countries in Asia and Africa.
>
> The Food and Agriculture Organization site has a lot of reports, none  of 
>which  show the demand side (i.e. demand in India/China) being as much of a 
>factor as Bush suggests. In fact Business Standard carried this article 
>stating:
>
> Data collected by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the
> United Nations show that the consumption of cereals (wheat, rice, maize,
> corn and so on) is growing far more rapidly in the US than in India or
> China.
> 
>http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=1&autono=321996
> 
>
> ~Maloy

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