As crops rot, millions go hungry in India
So let's summarize:  The Indian government spends billions of dollars (which are desperately needed for other purposes in a poor country like India) propping up the price of wheat.  This causes many farmers to switch from growing vegetables to wheat.  The drives up the price of vegetables, and <i>would</i> drive down the price of wheat, except for political reasons the Indian government would rather let the wheat rot than give it away cheaply.  As a result, many of the poor can't afford wheat, and the ones who can can't afford anything <i>but</i> wheat, leading to rampant malnutrition.<p>Or even shorter:  India spends billions of dollars on a policy that does nothing except ensure they have a rate of child malnutrition almost twice that of sub-saharan Africa.<p>tl;dr:  Socialism, lol.<p>(Oh, and as Spodek pointed out, famines are caused by a lack of money, not food.  It's been known for DECADES that if you want to stop people starving, you need to give them cash, and cut barriers to trade.)