I live in Bavaria, Germany. Hunger is not a huge problem here in Germany, but it really is a serious problem we have to fight against in other countries all around the world. In my opinion the biggest hazard for food security, especially in western European countries, is the continuous rise of food prices. Compared to the raise in wages you see a dramatic difference between the pace of the raise of food prices and the pace of pay raises. The result is that these people concerned can not buy the same amount of food anymore in the near future. I think that this dramatic rise of food prices in the last few years is a cause of too deregulated markets. The competition, which was anticipated by several governments and "market experts", in these markets stayed out. So the problem now is that companies in the food industry have too much abilities to set their price ranges because of the very low competition. This could easily be regulated by the local governments or even the European government by setting some regulations in food-pricing!
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