How record harvests generate food inequality

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)says that world cereal production will hit a record high in 2014.

World cereal consumption has steadily increased for the past 10 years, while production has generally kept pace or beaten demand. But while the picture was generally positive this year, FAO’s report also highlighted how conflict, weather and disease can prove to be the tipping points in places in fragile food security situations.