By Tim Lang – The Guardian
Slowly, surely, a new mixture of consensus and fault lines is emerging about world food. On the one hand, there is agreement that we are entering a new era in which basic agricultural commodity prices are rising after decades of dropping. This will hit the poorest hardest, as the new Oxfam report rightly points out. But on the other hand, there is not yet sufficient agreement or political leverage to begin the big changes that are necessary. To make matters more complicated, there's disagreement on what the problem really is.
Is another round of technical intensification needed to raise productivity? That's what the UK's Foresight report argued a few months ago, calling for the oxymoronic "sustainable intensification". Or is it a matter best addressed by more equitable distribution of wealth? This is what Oxfam and others argue, saying there is enough food to go around if properly shared.
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