This is a meaningless metric. Food can't be magically shipped to the regions that need it. A better measurement would be waste per capita or farm land utilization.
Development is hard.
"Teach a man to fish..."
It really is. That's what Lothrop Stoddard called 'The Burden Of Civilization'. Essentially, this is to say that, in as much as civilization can be a good thing, it is also very difficult to attain and sustain; some people are willing to push themselves as hard as they can to do this and some people just aren't equipped to handle civilization.