... estimate that as many as 73 million people are being added to our planet every year, while resources available to feed them, land and water, are diminishing. At the moment, the world produces enough food for its people, but food is often not available to those most in need, leaving some 800 million people hungry, 95 percent of them in the developing world. To produce enough food for everyone in 2020, we must increase world food supplies by 50 percent. Food surpluses produced by developed countries cannot reach many of the people who need them in the developing world. Developing countries may not have enough income to pay for food imports. Additionally, many of the world's poor and hungry live where there are no roads or other infrastructure to deliver the food to the needy. These people are best helped if they are enabled to grow their own nourishment. The poor ...

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