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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
The planet actually produces much more food than is actually needed, let alone consumed. The problems lie mainly in poor distribution. A reduction of 5, 10, even 25% of production is unlikely to cause everyone in the world to starve (there'd still be enough to feed everyone), provided distribution was effective.
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Over the past 10 years the increases in world grain prices haven't been due to a lack of grain, they've been due to increasing amounts of grain being used for purposes other than directly feeding people (such as for feeding livestock for meat production and also for making alcohol as oil prices rise).