Better food access, not production needed to solve hunger

Speakers at the Food Security Summit in Johannesburg were unanimous in their opinion that better distribution of food would solve food insecurity since a sufficient amount of food was produced to feed to world. “There is a bias perspective on production based solutions for food insecurity. Policies are currently focussed on availability not access, but household access to formal and informal markets must be considered,” said Patrick Andries, rural food banking executive at FoodBank South Africa.

Read the 06 July issue of FW for the full story.