How to end the food crisis ‘at the stroke of a pen’

The US and EU are perpetuating the current world food crisis - a crisis which could be solved almost instantly with very little effort.

Food prices coloured much of this week's debate in Brussels over farm subsidies, says James Kanter in the International Herald Tribune, with some governments arguing that the fact they are now soaring justifies dismantling the whole system.

This isn't a debate that is going to be settled anytime soon the controversial Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is not scheduled for major reform until 2013. Short term, there will be no change in the CAP budget of £32bn (which accounts for 42% of EU spending).

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