If everyone of us planted a fruit tree,would there be a scarcity of food?

Question

There is sometimes too much complaining:where is food?While observing that 70% of land is left uncultivated,why not plant more fruit trees around the world,and solve the hunger problem?
There are also too much undesirable plants:sugar cane/beetroot/tobacco...

visit the green belt movement,created by Mrs.Wangari Mathai Nobel Prize winner for having planted 1 million trees in Kenya.Next objective:1 billion trees in 2007.
http://greenbeltmovement.org

Men can live on fruits!
Wars can be avoided,by eliminating demoniac rulers,and replace them with divine ones!
Trees and plants don not need any chemicals:they were better off before:look what chemicals have done to this planet!
The world needs aboundant food,of good quality,but "civilised"countries are producing poisonous and useless foodstuffs.

Answer 1

i have three 24" pots and i have three fruit trees planted in them.

Answer 2

Ever wonder why the poor in the U.S. are fat? Because we have made calories very inexpensive. Our production, transportation, distribution and storage systems make calories readily available to almost everyone here.

But, the scarcity that causes most of the hunger the world doesn't have anything to do with food production, transportation, distribution or storage. It's the scarcity of minimally corrupt governments and scarcity of knowledge.

We can send all the food we want to a starving country, but little of it will ever get to the starving. Their governments will sell it on the black market and enrich themselves.

If they all planted fruit trees, they probably wouldn't have the knowledge or resources (water) to keep those alive. If they did, then their corrupt governments would just come and take most of their yields anyway.

You want to solve world hunger? The only way is to nation-build (i.e. remove corrupt dictators from power and build governments there where the people can thrive), but few people have the stomach for it.

Answer 3

Yes.

1) Man cannot live on peaches alone.
2) Trees need fertiliser and irrigation.
3) Famines are caused due to war, mismangement and political oppression
4) Oversupplying the world with food would push down the price of food, which is actually not a good idea when the third world is mostly populated by farmers who need to trade their way out of poverty.

Answer 4

Planting of the fruit trees is probably less problematic than the fair distribution of the fruit to the hungry.
If money is involved in any way, the distribution will not be fair.
Humans are usually more greedy than compassionate.

Answer 5

I have to agree with lesabre25.

The problem is not abouth scarcity, it's about impartition. On this plannet we have the nessessary ressource to feed, lodge, transport and educate properly everyone. But, the resource are spent else where. Such as luxury and millitry.

In fact, we are so able to produce everithing we need that there are even severe problems of unemployement.

Answer 6

I love your idea! There should be a law requiring all landowners to plant a certain number of fruit or nut trees per acre and land that they own. I think the US once had a law requiring everyone to grow hemp, believe it or not.

Answer 7

Interesting idea. What fruit trees would you plant in Alaska, the Sahara or the coastal areas?

Part of the problem is that people have settled in areas that have unstable patterns of nature.

Answer 8

wow... cool i like hat idea.... tell someone! maybe the government
don't let someone steel your idea!