how would i go about finding out how much it would cost to feed this world?

Question

im just wondering the cost in american dollors how much
money would it take to feed all the people in the world?
does anybody really know how much ?

Answer 1

First of all you would have do away with all the greedy people
then and only then could you begin to sort of the diff rent cost for things that would help feed the world

Answer 2

It depends on where you want to grow the food to feed the world. Production costs are vastly different across the world.

In the U.S., the total value of annual agricultural production is about $150 billion. If we assume that domestically consumed food accounts for $100 billion ($150 billion less non-food products such as cotton less food exports), this translates into $357 a year per person ($100 billion divided by 280 million people). So feeding the whole world (six billion people) out of the U.S. (or other high-income countries with similar production costs) would cost about two trillion dollars. But the figure should probably be adjusted downward, since the U.S. is chronically overfed...

Answer 3

The world produces far more food than is necessary to feed everyone. Starvation arises because it is not distributed evenly. Developed countries throw out billions of tonnes of food every day. They also have many people dying from obesity and related diseases (diabetes etc).

Using an aggregate supply-demand framework, this suggests that food prices should fall. However, as I mentioned, it isn't distributed evenly and not everyone has equal access to buy food, so normal efficient market assumptions don't hold.

Most of the world's population survives on less than US$1/day, to cover food, accomodation etc. Therefore, if you really wanted a number, you could assume that you could feed someone for around US50c/day, if food was distributed evenly. Then multiply that by some estimate of world population.

Answer 4

if you are serious about this question, you would have to do the following research quite possibly online with yahoo searching or google for instance.

You would first have to either decide on how long of a time period your talking about, either for say a month, half year, 1 year, ect.

From there, you would have to find the averege life span in years of the average person in the world as a whole. Then you would have to find out how much it costs for the cost of food for the average person/world for like a month/ year.

you then would have to find out how many people there are in the world up to the present date. i wouldnt worry too much on what the population would change in the time period you want to feed the world for.

then you would multiply the ammount of money a month it is in american dollars( to eat for one person a month, average, meaning babies-old age) by 12 to get the ammount per year(that is if you are figuring it for a year). If this is possible(meaning if you dont have to split people into catagories by age- say 0-2yr. olds are x ammount, 3-5 yr olds are x ammount, and so on) then you would multiply that total by how many people there are in the world.

Then my friend, im sorry to tell you, that there would not even be that much american currency on paper to account for all this charging of food. Then you would have to have the food delivered to all the countries around the world, that is, unless you get a few million on a massive campain to do the shipping for free.

so good luck and god bless lol!

Say if then

Answer 5

OK here's how I would figure this out ....no I am not going to do the math.....figure out how much it cost to feed one person for one day ...three meals...think it is like 25 us dollars.....then figure out how many people there are on the face of the planet......then do the math....there you go that would be how much it would cost to feed the people of the world for a day.....now comes the fun part......every 1/4 of a sec there are people being being born and every min some die.....so you will never got a true number....



good luck and have fun

Answer 6

I think it would be fairly simple and straight forward to work that out. Just find the population and figure out how much it cost to feed one person.

Of course that depends on what you are going to feed us and for how long. I can get by on a can of sardines or kippers. I've also made it for a month or so on nothing but rice, peanut butter, and a can of coffee. But BBQ ribs, Grilled chicken and steaks are more to my liking.

Then there's also transportation, refrigeration, preparation, and distribution of the food. I'm assuming its not going to be a buffet.
Are you going to do the cooking yourself or are we going to have to do that for ourselves. When do you want us to show up. Or maybe you should leave it to the market place. It's really worked so far. The places where people starve are usually where they've left it for somebody else to decide what they should eat.

Answer 7

Take the recommended food required by the experts each day. Like 5 serves of fruit & veg, 3 serves dairy, 2 cereal, 1 of protein (don't quote me on these portions - a meal is only the size of your fist) and then multiply the cost of daily requirement by the number of people.

Answer 8

do you mean: to feed 6-7 billion, or: to feed the unfeed & underfed as well as the already fed?

a dollar a day, they say, so $50 million a day to feed the 50 million [1% of humans] starved to death by us each year

there is about a $1 million world income /yr per starving person/ yr

there is about US$75,000 /yr income per family ie, every family working average hard produces U$75,000 of products /yr - & 90% are paid between $7500 & $75 /yr - & 1% are paid 90% of world income, ie US$75 trillion /yr

pay is from 1000th of world avg pay/hr to a million times world avg pay/hr - 1% are paid above avg/hr - 99% are paid below avg/hr

if you make the lowest pay/hr 1mm, you have to go 1000 kilometres to highest pay/hr, ie a million metres, a billion mm.s

225 ppl have as much as 2,500,000,000 ppl

& ppl think that is okay, acceptable, right

if you make the world avg pay/hr 4 kilometres [the avg depth of the ocean] then the crests of pay/hr go up 4 million kilometres - 10 x past the moon

without justice the state cannot stand

no state has stood [ie, lasted]

no state has practised justice

'the purpose of govt is justice' james madison

'if a person sees need, & has means, & does nothing, love is not in them' NT

christian commandments: love [self, others & love]

there is great need, great means, & no love - not even selflove

for, if you love yourself, you will love others, because hurting others bounces back on yourself: ppl are not doormats: trust them to resent & retaliate injury, indifference, lovelessness, being starved to death amid plenty [US$75,000/family/yr]

we are all going for more more more for us - & we are thus causing our own misery & extinction - like children going for all the cake, & having the misery of grabbing & being grabbed from forever - & destroying the cake

see my other answers here at yahoo if this interests you

Answer 9

Why feed them is my question. Its sad they starve, but how about not living in a freaking desert, and not breeding like pack rats. Feeding them cures the symptom, not the cause of famine.

to answer your question, perhaps multiply the number of starving people, by minimal food, cost of distribution, manpower to distribute, etc... Its a start. Or the alternative, how much money to make them self sufficient would it cost?

Answer 10

well... how much does it take to feed your family per month?? devide that by each person.... that gives you a price per individual. find out how many people there are in the world.... and multiply the individual preice by the number of people in the world........... there ya go...answer is there.. any more questions you could have figured out yourself just by using your brain a little bit??