Why Cant People Feed Themselves?

Why can 't people feed themselves

The title of this is a question that is actually rhetoric . Along with trying to answer this question , it is also necessary that we go deeper into the actual reason why people can 't feed themselves

I am not of the actual opinion that starvation is an offshoot of non-availability of food grains . Yes , that is the effect . The actual cause is something else . There have been several thinkers and scientists who have put forth their views on the subject , and I have my own line of

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In Article 31 , according to Frances Moore Lappe , Joseph Collins , and Cary Fowler (originally published in Food First : Beyond the myth of Scarcity , Houghton-Mifflin , 1977 , Colonialism seemed to be the key between the countries that had a food surplus , and the countries where people could not apparently feed themselves . Their explanation included various examples of countries like India and Bangladesh , where there is a lot of starvation . There is a lot of logic in their style of thought as cited in an example of Calcutta in India . As colonialism made sure that the social system of the country was disrupted , people who depended on agriculture for their livelihood were forced out of it , leading to a widespread upheaval of the entire social fabric . This led to a lot of repercussions , and that is one of the key reasons why hunger became so widespread in all the so-called `under-developed ' countries . So Colonialism is one reason...