global hunger a 'crisis in democracy'...

so here's the question: with the world producing ever increasing quantities of food, why does the number of people going hungry just keep rising?

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food scarcity is not the problem, never has been. food production has generally gone up faster than population growth, so there's enough food to go around, says frances moore lappé. (in 2008, for instance, world grain production went up five percent while population growth was up 1.2 percent.) the problem is how the world uses food, who controls the supply and the growing concentration of corporate power in global agribusiness, she argues. // sheila pratt, 02.01.09, the edmonton journal