1.   Set-aside schemes have taken land out of production to help reduce food surpluses.

2.   If plant and animal production is made much more efficient in its use of resources, food surpluses could remain a recurring problem, certainly in the short term.

3.   By contrast, most schools get at least some free beef, courtesy of government programs to purchase food surpluses.

4.   Poland and Hungary are currently at loggerheads over an import tax on agricultural products because both countries have a huge food surplus.

5.   But it had a massive food surplus from the previous year, cash to import food and good relations with donor countries.

6.   But the distribution of food is not easily accomplished and it is not simple to reallocate a food surplus, he said.

7.   Growing food surpluses and more aggressive competition come at the same time that the EU must scale back farm subsidies because of budget concerns.

8.   It said many African governments are making advance plans to deal with natural disasters such as drought by stockpiling food surpluses.

9.   That would sever the link between subsidies and output that have long saddled the EU with massive food surpluses and sour trade ties with Washington.

10.   That would sever the link between subsidies and output that long saddled the EU with massive food surpluses and sour trade ties with Washington.