The GeoPolitics of Food and Hunger

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, stated, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself/herself and of his/her family, including food, clothing, housing. . . .” More than 50 years later, these basic human rights elude millions of people in Third World countries and in the most affluent and powerful nation in the world, the United States of America.

Poverty remains the major cause of hun…