To be in debt feeds the double temptation of getting whatwe want as quickly as possible as well as getting “something fornothing.”

The most important thing that can be done to eliminate hunger and malnutrition is to put more emphasis on local food security and nutritional programmes.78 International trade is not necessarily the answer,79 nor is raising aggregate food production.80 The problem in the modern world is not the lack of a sufficient quantity of food (FAO estimates that the world can already feed double the existing population), but rather the disparities in food availability and growing inequalities across the world.