Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
No shit. Famine has been a policy decision for decades at this point. We’re past the point of scarcity where anyone would ever need to starve, so starvation in today’s world is a direct result of other people’s decision to have them starve. It’s evil.
But that’s alright. Those very same people are ensuring that times of scarcity are returning.
I think people underestinate the logistic hurdle behind making the food available for everyone.
We produce enough calories for sure, but delivering the extra meatball from my plate on the arctic circle to the plate of starving kid in the South Sudan is not that simple.
For effectivelly to end famine in everywhere need to make a massive push to train locals to farm effectivetely and get working infrasturcture for them to farm, process and deliver the produce where it needs to go. It would need full cooperation from the leaders in those countries to be effective and in unstable countries in africa and middle-east its not given.
Also many places where the famine is a problem there are also other hurdless like not having enouhg arable land or landscape that makes it impossible to make farm land. Those places need to rely on food deliveries where fossil fuel use and product shelf live would be one new hurdle.
This all while, not easy, is doable, but it would need long term planning and unwavering support from larger countries and in the current situation where USA is in a tug of war, where after every election new leader spends 4 years in undoing the last leaders decitions, India has its own problems, China is doing their their own thing and Russia is doing their best to make world as unstable as they can, while EU has their own problems, i dont see how we could do it.
If solving hunger world wide would be so easy as some people think it is, it would be done allready.