There is no debate that eliminating hunger

worldwide is one of humanity’s greatest challenges

in the 21

st century. However, there are radically

divergent visions for how to achieve this goal. Many

people equate “feeding the world” with the need

to produce more food. Yet this simplistic analysis

ignores fundamental facts about world hunger. In

fact, the mandate to produce more food to feed

the world is often invoked to justify food and

farming policies and practices that exacerbate the

conditions of hunger and undermine our ability to

feed future generations.