12 SOCIAL SCIENTIST We have to redefine the world hunger problem as a social one, not a technical one. People freed from exploitation by landlords, elitist governments and corporate power—people who know that together they are working for themselves—have shown that they will not only make the land produce but they can make it even more productive. After decades of heavy dependence on food imports, Cuba is now producing rice, beef, dairy products and an increasingly wide variety of fruits and vegetables. The Chinese people, through equalizing and localizing control over food producing resources, have freed themselves from hunger. And in countries like Jamaica where half the protein intake has been coming from foreign sources, even minor moves towards land reform can lead to some diversification and less hunger. Once people use their own land to feed themselves first, trade can become an organic outgrowth of development—no longer the fragile hinge on which basic survival hangs. No country can hope to "win" in international trade as long as its very survival depends on selling only one or two products every year. A country simply cannot hold out for just prices for its exports if it is desperate for foreign exchange with which to import food. Once the basic needs are met, however, trade can become a healthy extension of domestic need rather than being determined stiictly by foieign demand. Cuba and China have shown that food trade does not have to be at the cost of a decently-fed population. In contrast, the global farm and the global supermarket are the type of interdependence no one needs. They are a smokescreen for the usurpation of land and labour by a few for a few.