Oxfam's alarm bell on food security
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Announcing the launch of the Grow campaign as 925 million people go hungry every day, UK Charity Oxfam Chief Executive Barbara Stocking has observed that the food system is pretty well bust in the world. According to the recent Oxfam report, the food prices could double in the next 20 years. The reason behind increasing trend of hunger around the globe include food price inflation and oil price hikes, scrambles for land and water, and creeping climate change. The Oxfam has rightly suggested in its report - “Now the major powers, the old and the new, must cooperate, not compete, to share resources, build resilience, and tackle climate change”. In fact, the poor developing countries are the worst sufferers of Climate Change which is a result of the activities of the industrialized developed nations. Hence the developed world has a moral obligation to help both financially and technically the developing countries. Their economies are mainly based on agriculture where many of the battles over land, water, and food are being fought and where people are struggling to develop sustainable agriculture and attain food security. While sincerely appreciating Oxfam's Grow campaign, I would call upon the international community to work together to produce enough food so that not a single person around the globe die of hunger.
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