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Time to change aid to give people sovereignty over their food

The world has more than enough food, but current UK aid policy helps concentrate power over it in corporate hands.

Time to change aid to give people sovereignty over their food
Members of Abrono Organic Farming Project (ABOFAP) in their organic chilli farm. Near Techiman, Ghana | Global Justice Now, CC 2.0.
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The world already produces enough food to feed 10 billion people, which is far more than our current population of 7.7 billion.

So why, half a century since the right to food was recognised as a basic human right by the UN, do nearly a billion people across the world go hungry at the same time as huge proportions of food are routinely wasted?

A root cause of this situation is that our food production system is controlled by a small handful of globally dominant companies - and the solution must involve changing this.