The problem is that, having neglected food security and the productive sectors of their economies for several decades, many developing countries’ governments now lack the fiscal capacity to increase public spending in order to increase food production and agricultural productivity. Moreover, growing urbanization and other non-agricultural uses of land have reduced acreage available for food production, while agricultural land is increasingly used to produce commodities other than food, such as bio-fuels.
问题在于在忽略食品安全问题以及它们经济中的生产部门达几十年之久后，许多发展中国家的政府现在缺乏足够的财政能力以提高公共支出用于提高食品产量和农业生产力。此外，城市化的蔓延和其他非农业用地的增加减少了可以用于提高食品产量的耕地数量，与此同时有越来越多的农业用地却被用来生产食品之外的其他商品，比如生物燃料。