Answer: Definitely, the issue is not only about food aid. China, for example, is the most populated country, but also potentially very rich. It can produce or buy everything it needs. It is also interesting to examine this issue with regard to other countries, not only China. Due to growth of BRIC economies over previous years, in the current situation many people can afford to start consuming milk and meat instead of grain products because of a higher income.

Unfortunately to produce one kilogram of meat one must use seven kilograms of grain. Therefore, the use of grain is now less efficient compared to the situation in the past, when people used grain only for food. There is a certain boundary, a limit beyond which production of meat cannot be increased. It is this issue that the world should focus on in a near term. Countries are becoming wealthier and demand for food is increasing, and changing. In the past when I was a child, we did not eat meat every day. Now people eat meat almost every day. To my regret, I do not have now an answer as to how this situation will be addressed in a longer term.