According to the Institute for Food and Development policy
No one should discount the long term consequences of rapid population growth. High population densities can make more difficult the tasks of social and economic restructuring necessary to eliminate hunger. The error, however is to transform the problem of population- a symptom and exacerbating factor- into the cause of hunger. This is not semantic squabble. Getting at the solution to any problem hinges on how well one can pinpoint its root cause.
The root cause of hunger has to do with the relationships of people to each other and to their control over resources.As long as people think the fundamental cause is elsewhere, the hungry will be in fact be made hungrier. Indeed to attack the high birth rates without attacking the causes of poverty and the powerlesness of women is fruitless. It is a tragic diversion our planet cannot afford.
I hope that the Social contract of Groupe 184 is in line with this thinking and those facts.
Certainly there are a few countries in Latin America with both a realtively high population density and widespread hunger - countries like Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic nonetheless have slightly less cultivated land per person and a much longer growing season than Italy. This calculation does not eeven include the considerable additional area uncultivated in these two carribean countries many agronomists agree is good agricultural land. This land is officially classified as "permanent pasture" simply because the well off owners choose to graze livestock on it. The tremendous and needless underutilization of food production ressources allows us to only to conclude that so called overpopulation is not the cause of hunger.
Such underutilization of food producing resources characterizes every society where, as in Bangladesh, land, the credit and marketing system are controlled by a few and those who work the land do not have effective control over it. The Real barriers to Greater Production are not Physical but Political and Economic.
Research can be done at the:
Institute for Food and Development policy. U.S.A for this particular segment.
A suivre.
If Group 184 wishes to developp a better relationship with the people to compete with Lavalasse philosophically by presenting a better alternative for Collective Emancipation, National Prosperity through National Production. Please Follow this road.
This is service it is in any way a confrontation for power.
To serve or not to serve that is the question.
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