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).
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.
The bottom line is that you can’t solve world hunger until you solve world peace.
And peace can’t be bought.
Easy and simple aren’t the same thing.
We have the production and we have the resources, the thing we’re lacking is the will to make it happen. The people in South Sudan are so distant from me here in Sweden that they might as well be ants in someone’s back yard. Hell, the ants in someone’s back yard might actually be of more import to said someone.
The societies we’ve created just simply don’t care, and that’s where the problem lies.
I once heard someone say that until very recently, mankind has not been able to produce enough food for everyone. So the question of how to get that supply everywhere it needs to be is still a new problem.
I think that is an encouraging and exciting problem to have, but it’s still a problem.
That is true. Im not expert, but new machinery, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are the reason why we can produce so much right now, but all those come with a downsides.
Machinery is resource intensive and uses mainly fossil fuels. Electric machinery is a possibility, but it recuires rare elements and requires specialized training to make and repair.
Synthetic fertilizers need also minerals and can be almost as nasty for enviroment, same with pesticide.
I try to be optimistic, but without big leaps in technology i dont think we cant keep producing food like this forever without destroying the enviroment even more.
With global warming and the damage turning wild land in to farm land causes i think that even if we could fix global hunger now, i dont think it would last.
But that does not mean we should not aspire to do it.