Have a look at Permaculture and Greening the Desert on Youtube.
http://www.permacultureactivist.net/Newsletter/Permanews.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sohI6vnWZmk
Talk about How to define poverty/hunger.
Good luck
2007-07-01 02:26:41
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answered by Anonymous
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The terrible answer above is very negligent and spoken out of total ignorance and ineptness. In fact, its this provincial belief shared by classists and socialists around the globe that actually help promote and perpetuate poverty. The paradox, is that there are raw materials and goods sitting in store/warehouses while millions go hungry in the same cities. No this food shouldnt freely be distributed. This high inefficiency connotes a lack of free market capitalism.
since govt can never be efficient enough to allocate scarce resources, private enterprise can do this since they have profit motives in mind. If they make mistakes they go under, and someone else can do it better. Govt can never go out of business, so efficiency is not an incentive. Look at FEMA.
Another example, Iran has millions of barrels of unrefined oil waiting, while most of the population waits in lines rationing due to perceived shortages. Why? Again, its due to governmental set prices controls and regulations. Its been proven when free enterprise can act without high govt regualtion and price controls, everything becomes more efficient, therefore scarce resources are able to be allocated efficiently to whomever needs to buy them. In fact, its shown the freer that enterprise, the cheaper the resultant prices since competition brings about this. The nations that struggle with poverty, struggle with high taxation and bureacratic red tape and socialistic policies making it impossible for citizens to run businesses that would then allocate these scarce resources efficiently. The USA is the best example of the closest ideal free market.
2007-07-01 10:07:03
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answered by aCeRBic 4
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This is the real reason you won't find in a text book.
Every country on earth has politicians running the country that can't be trusted.
And most people understand, even the uneducated, that the people that run the government think of their desires and needs {full bellies} first and last about the well being of the masses.
This leads to mis-trust and thievery through out the whole country.
In this situation no one wants to lend anyone start-up money for a business, because chances are the lender won't be paid back.
Trust can't be bought, it has to be "Earned" over time.
2007-07-01 12:02:10
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answered by beesting 6
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if you really want to make this world poverty and hunger free then you will have to make this world INTEREST FREE , that INTEREST is making rich nation more richer and poor nations more poorer , cauz nations which are already rich are lending money to poor nations and charging them more interest year after year without thinking that if they are not able to give you your real lending money back how they are going to give you that money back with interest aswell , and the poor nations are keep on borrowing money every year without thinking how they are gonna give it back to them with interest , and because they get it every year just for saying YES to interest so they dont really care about generating their own money by using their resources , which alse makes them more poor . So i think it depends on interest , without interest there would be no lender , and if someone will give money to someone that would be on humanity basis , so in that case borrower and lender both will have a last chance which will push poorer nations to think about using their own resources dispite of lookin at rich nations face every year .
2007-07-01 09:31:19
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answered by Sai Saab 1
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Give everyone world wide that makes less than 25,000 a year food stamps
2007-07-01 09:15:16
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answered by Anonymous
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I solved this problem about a year ago . . . i sent a package of Zucchini seeds to the christian children's fund.
2007-07-01 09:18:45
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answered by Kelly 3
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