why is it so difficult provide adequate food for all the world's people?

Answer 1

There is only one right answer to this.

Dictators, tyrants, warlords, and power-hungry corrupt politicians do not want their people to eat.
If the people are kept starving and poor, the people can not rise up and overthrow their tyrant.
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Answer 2

Your question seems to have several presuppositions.

To illustrate, let me ask, [assuming you live in the united states] is it difficult for you to get food?

Why do you think this is?

Short answer ; when the market [ie. people] are free enough to operate, the interests of those involved will tend to be met. That's why they participate in the first place. The more road blocks there are, the more difficult it is to reach a given end.

The market is a social mechanism for the purpose of allocating goods. It is how members of a society or different socities cooperate and exchange goods and services.

To understand why some people are not receiving basic necessities, we should ask, who is preventing this. Often, as is the case in 'third world countries' there reside centralized governments that do not recognize certain fundamental rights of the people they obstensibly represent.

Without rights, you cannot have a 'right' to something. A right implies property. This is due to the fact that property rights exist because of scarcity. In a world of limited goods, we need a established system by which we can exchange the resources we use.

To be brief, there are ONLY 3 choices in regards to human action and the right to such.

Either,

1. each individual can own property.
2. some can own property but not others, or
3. We all own everything.

Number 2 fails as an ethical rule because it is not universally applicable. It creates two distinct classes. A master and a slave.

Number 3 cannot work. It would mean that for you to use something or do something, you would need permission. And since everyone is equal in their ownership of everything, you would need everyone else's permission. Otherwise you would be acting unjustifiably, since you have no 'right' to do it. More fundamentally, who gave you the right to ask for permission?

As Murray Rothbard noted in his Ethics of Liberty,

". . it is physically impossible for everyone to keep continual tabs on everyone else, and thereby to exercise his equal share of partial ownership over every other man. In practice, then, this concept of universal and equal other-ownership is Utopian and impossible, and supervision and therefore ownership of others necessarily becomes a specialized activity of a ruling class. Hence, no society which does not have full self-ownership for everyone can enjoy a universal ethic. For this reason alone, 100 percent self-ownership for every man is the only viable political ethic for mankind."

This is NOT semantics. It is argumentive, or discourse ethics. The answer is number 1.

Historically, and for theoretical reasons, governments pose the greatest danger to human flourishing. Whenever people are starving or in some way in dire straights, you can bet it's due to the hand of government or the hand of god.

In fact, the record of government far outweighs that of natural disasters in regards to destruction and death.

Rule of thumb ; the more one understands economics, the less government they will favor.

Take care

Answer 3

This is because of the following reasons--
most important reason is unequal distribution of wealth among people.then,
1)population explosion.
2)lack of proper planning by the governments.
3)wastage of food ,sometimes due to famines, floods,etc.
4)lack of advancement in food technology
5)less research in scientific technologies in agricultural section i.e. tissue culture and similar techniques.

Answer 4

Its called finance.
Are you willing to go out back in your garden and put in time to work the soil and then spend the money for seed,fertilizer,water, sprays and weed, then harvest the crop(meaning more time) and deliver it to those places that need it free of charge? And do it year after year? They can't pay you....they have no money.