I’m not suggesting the EU gives the food away. What they should do is trade the food instead of stockpiling it to protect the European farming industry. In doing so, it would surely benefit Africa and other poor regions by eliminating economic protectionist policies like CAP that they can’t possibly compete with.

“Support to farmers in OECD countries totals 280 billion USD annually. By contrast, official development assistance amounted to 80 billion USD in 2004. OECD analysts estimate that cutting agricultural tariffs and subsidies by 50% would add an extra 26 billion USD to annual world income, equivalent to just over four dollars a year for every person on the globe.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Agricultural_Policy#Criticism_of_the_CAP

How’s things? I am now in my new job..really good but very busy. Glad to be finally working in development though. In terms of food security, I am not sure giving out the EU food mountains to Sub-Saharan Africa for example would solve the problem and it would not be sustainable. It would keep the status quo and support the continued power imbalance between the North and the South.