This makes it very hard to send the message that there is a world of hungry people out there to people who read every day in the newspapers that the state is subsidizing a mountain of butter or a mountain of grain. As far as civil unrest is concerned, you have to take a holistic view to solve these problems. If you only address food security issues, you will not solve them. Take Burundi, for example. The problems there are between two rival tribal groups, each of whom wants to dominate.
Food does play a part.
But you have to give employment to people and give them a stake in society. This is what people dont have in many countries. So you have to use it as a building block in the holistic approach to development. We need to avoid unchecked flight from the country to the cities. Small areas of urbanization in the rural areas would be desirable as well.