Do we grow enough food to feed everyone on the planet?

Answer 1

Yes we have for some time. The only reason human starvation still happens is due to either short term disasters or truely horrible government policies.

Places like North Korea and Zimbabwae have starvation due to government policies that actively prevent aid from being deliviered from outside due to national pride and stubborn adherence to twisted flavors of Comminism and Socialism.

Other starvation is occuring due to wars, and civil strife such as in Somalia, Sudan etc. In those cases the government or rebels prevent delivery of food to the people.

In the rich and even in the moderately rich world starvation is almost entirely due to a small number of people who either due to ignorance, disablity or pride do not get the food that is avalible for their use.

For all of the reasons of starvation, it is the delivery of food that is almost always at fault. Not the production. Since the 40s the amount of food grown per person has increased for the whole world, this is despite more than doubleing the world poulation without significantly increasing the land used by agriculture.

Beyond starvation is sub-optimal nutrition, and that is a bigger problem in the world today than starvation. Some nutritional problems are due to real poverty and food shortages, but in the rich world they are more often due to bad choices of individuals.

Answer 2

there are terrible wastes going on to controll prices of grain ,and billions of tons of food is wasted that could be used to feed hungry Nations
but the powers that control this world are not too concerned about saving the masses
Kissinger at a bilderberg Meeting in Kopenhagen in 1998 said the their Agenda demanded a 70%reduction in the world population
this is an omnious remark to say the least and can mean anything upto a nuclear war

nevertheless other factors determine the food production

Lester E Brown is the director and founder of the global institute of Environment in the United states .he has compiled a report based on all the satalite information available from NASA,and all the information that has
come from Universities and American embassies WORLD WIDE ,
his little book--a planet under stress , Plan B has been trans lated into 50 languages and won the best book award in 2003.
Mono cultures ,aided by chemicals Exhaust and pollutes the soil .
Adding to this the effects of overgrazing has resulted in large scale desertification.

Each year billions of tons of topsoil are blown or washed away by storms.

Arable lands and their farms are lost all over the globe. Many farmers sons abandon farming and head for the cities.

Northern China is drying up, what once were millions of food producing people,

are now hungry refugees ,running for their lives from the all consuming dust storms.

This will have a great effect on world food prices when they start buying at what ever cost, to feed their people.

Africa and Asia are loosing millions of people to AIDS , many of whom were food producers.

The farmers that are left have to feed some 70 million more people than the year before but with less topsoil.

Over the last half century,
Population growth & rising incomes have tripled world grain demand from 640 million tons to 1,855 million

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise. .

In the near future the global farming community will not be able to feed every body ,food prices will continue to rise.

Answer 3

Yes, of course. People die of starvation until the population drops to what can be fed. But that is not to say that everyone is equally well fed. There is not enough food for the whole world to eat like most Americans do, but there is enough food for way more than the present population if everyone in the world ate just barely enough to survive. That should be obvious. If there really was not enough food for the world, then within a week, or a month at the most, the people who aren't getting enough food to survive would die.

Answer 4

No-why in additional than a number of places there is starvation and with international warming right here and now a reality its in trouble-free words going to worsen. lets develop sufficient if we are all in charge for the planet-used our organic factors properly yet all of us recognize it truly isn't any longer occurring.Its been shown that land area used to strengthen grains,vegetables etc is way less and retains the land fit than the land required to save food animals which receives polluted from the waste of the animals-does no longer advise all ought to veg's yet be more beneficial smart interior using the land. Oceans are being depleted-over fished and factors of the sea,beaches are being found to be lifeless areas-fish and sea animals died and demise through warming of the water-depletes oxygen yet jellyfish etc are increasing. would not seem as if a rosy destiny yet is reality.

Answer 5

Just barely.

So some rich people have more than they need, and some poor people starve to death.

More information here:

http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/

Global warming will be worst in the poor countries that even now struggle to feed themselves. It will damage agriculture and many more people will starve.

Answer 6

yes, but not to feed them enough, actually.

In the so-called "first world" we have nutrition guides that say X amount of protein and Y amount of dairy and Z amount of veg, and we actually don't produce enough to give everybody X, Y and Z.

When scientists calculate that we have "enough to feed everyone" they do it on the basis of calories produced, not actual food items produced.

Answer 7

Yes we do.
We discard a lot of what's grown for cosmetic reasons. It's also not economically feasible to move all of that from the places where it is grown to the places where there are starving people.

Answer 8

Yes - Do you notice a lot of people starving to death? NO.

Most people who starve, starve because they refuse to move or can't.

Answer 9

yes we do, the distribution is badly done and there are food nountains which are not used to feed the starving!

http://www.wwf.org.uk/core/index.asp
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0702/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Answer 10

We do... we just don't use it to feed everyone.