Millions across the world face the daily challenge to find enough food to
survive. Hunger is on the rise globally with more than 1.2 billion people
suffering from food insecurity. Rising prices are further restricting food
access.In this deeply informative study, Majda Bne Saad identifies the causes
for global hunger embedded in the current global political and economic system
and highlights the key challenges facing low income food deficit countries. She
shows how Western countries share the blame for global hunger through their
support for subsidies to agricultural production and biofuels, which have
created new challenges to food security worldwide. Bne Saad argues that, as
world population rises