How the global food market starves the poor

To understand the complexities of the international food market -- and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve -- you could get a Ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank. Or you watch this superb 9-minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke.

Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably way over a kid's head. Just watch -- it's excellent, and very well illustrated. 

The sketch asks: How is it that our world, with so many smart farmers and good businesspeople, each making good economic decisions, has both so many overfed/overweight and so many chronically malnourished/starving people?

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