What are the best ways to solve overpopulation and world hunger?

Answer 1

the answer to your question, based on the fact you put it under economics is the following:

birth rates in 3rd world countries are high, while in developed countries the population growth rate is much lower. (i pasted a link in the source window, hope you can get to it, if not do a google search--global birth rates)

so that means that populations in developed countries are stagnant or declining--read less mouths to feed

while, conversely, populations in undeveloped (3rd world) countries are growing--read more mouths to feed, this is a circle, why are we so pour? because we have so many people? why are there so many people? because we have so many people....
it doesn't end

this is usually caused by the fact that 3rd world countries often have a much higher infant mortality rate--have 6 kids so 3 or 4 survive.

to answer your question:
make the non developed countries developed so the number of mouths to feed is not growing

Answer 2

Hunger is almost always an economic issue. Except at specific times when there are major disasters (natural or manmade), almost every market on earth throws food away at the end of the day. We are not short of food; we are short economic fairness for much of the world’s population.

In theory, we should be able to regulate human population size, but reality is very different. For any number of reasons, people keep reproducing more than is required to maintain the current level. While warfare is one method of reducing population size, it probably is not the most likely thing to reduce our current population.

We are overdue for a pandemic to strike and we are in something of a ‘perfect storm’ situation for one to occur. There is so much international mobility, and people travel faster than many illnesses manifest symptoms. It is only a matter of time, and probably not very long, before nature thins out our population some.

Answer 3

Why do you need to "solve" overpopulation? It usually takes care of itself, once certain level of economic well-being is reached.

In a poor society, children are assets. Parents make them work or simply sell them to employers. When parents get older, children take care of them. In a wealthy society, children are liabilities; they have no marketable skills until they are well into their teens, plus they cost money to give birth to, raise and educate. As a result, family fertility is inversely related to economic well-being. In the extreme, you have countries like Germany, Italy, and Japan, where population is actually shrinking...

This phenomenon is called "demographic transition" and has been repeatedly observed all over the world.

As to the world hunger, it's been by and large solved by 1980. Today, the world consistently produces more food than it consumes. The only reasons we still see hunger is war (for example, the civil war in Ethiopia drove large numbers of farmers off their lands, so they did not plant for years) and government policies (for example, in North Korea, the government is the sole landowner, the sole agricultural employer, and the sole food distributor; private enterprise in agriculture is limited to vegetable gardens and farmers' markets).

Answer 4

Proper education and counselling with regards to family planning. If the government will be succesful with that hunger problems follow to be resolved.

Answer 5

Using birth control is a way to solve overpopulation. Another way is to abstain from sex.
And then there's always getting "fixed".

Answer 6

Cannibalism

Answer 7

Nuke everyone. Or communism. Or we could attack every country one by one and take over. We don't have too much hunger here except for lazy people.

Answer 8

Cut back on luxuries and help those in need

Answer 9

Make it legal to hunt for idiots and tax the stupid until they starve to death?

Answer 10

Fix all people to not have kids that don't live in the US.