When you're talking about surpluses, you're talking about Europe and North America. Though some is redistributed to the developing world through food aid, this is really a drop in the ocean compared to the need. The bottom line is that it is up to the government to take action to prevent hunger and future famine. Amartya Sen, a leading researcher on hunger issues, has found that democracies tend to do better at preventing famines, probably because governments in democracies are charged with being responsible to the needs of the people who elected them. And prevention will be an essential task in the coming years as the world sees the population increase by 2.5 billion people by the year 2020.
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