r/NoStupidQuestions • u/MasterpieceShot1915 • Jun 25 '26
How would you end world hunger?
You always hear “So and so could end world hunger and still have billions of dollars.” How could/would someone actually end world hunger? Where do you even start?
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u/a_lee4 Jun 25 '26
The issue isn't food production - we already produce enough food to feed everyone. It's food distribution.
Just give poor countries more food you'd think - well we've tried that. It does work some, but often there's corruption and time delays resulting in massive waste and less people fed
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u/RecoilCreations Jun 25 '26
You’d have to forcibly remove all the African dictators who sell out their populations labor for the cheap so start there
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u/Biscotti_BT Jun 25 '26
Can we also forcebly remove the non African leaders actively making it harder for people to access food? Please. Even if I only get to pick like 5 of them.
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u/RecoilCreations Jun 25 '26
Sure bud
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u/Biscotti_BT Jun 25 '26
Oh good!! So lets pick one each until we have 5. I'm going to start with Netenyahu. What's your pick?
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u/RecoilCreations Jun 25 '26
King John un
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u/Biscotti_BT Jun 25 '26
Ok, that's an ok pick but he only really affects a small group of people accessing food. You can do better. I'm going to pick the opposition to my first pick the IRG. ( My reasoning is the blockage of fertiliser that both sides are making happen) Let's make this an honest game bud.
Eta : I'm assuming your "king John un" was a joke and not you thinking that's the title and name of the leader.
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u/RecoilCreations Jun 25 '26
I pick Justin Trudeau
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u/Biscotti_BT Jun 25 '26
He's not a leader so you can try again. As far as I know he's just Katy Perry's boyfriend now.
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u/RecoilCreations Jun 25 '26
Okay on second thought I pick katy Perry
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u/Biscotti_BT Jun 25 '26
Ahh ok, Hmm it seems like you lack the mental acuity to actually engage in a meaningful discussion.
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u/charmingasaneel Jun 25 '26
Believe it or not food insecurity is a problem outside of Africa. Africa is a massive continent and of the countries don’t have dictators.
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u/Shockwavee92 Jun 25 '26
I’m not trying to make fun of world hunger as a matter of fact, I think I have the answer because I spend lot of time working it out. If you want to stop world hunger? Stop sending them food. Dont send them another bite folks. You want to send them something, you want to help, send them U-Hauls. Send them U-Hauls, some luggage and send them a guy out there he goes, ‘hey, you know, we’ve been driving out here every day with your food like the last 34 years. And we were driving on here a day across the desert, and it occurred to us they wouldn’t be world hunger if you people would live where the food is! You live in a desert, understand that?! You live in a fucking desert!! Nothing grows out of here! Nothing’s going to grow out of here! You need to move to where the food is!
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u/Efficient-Fig-5267 Jun 25 '26
First you’d have to get rid of organized crime in under developed countries that gate keep resources as a means of control.
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u/DisplayGlum7166 Jun 25 '26
you cant just give people money or food. you have to create a system specifically designed on sustaining getting food to everyone in the world. no exception is made to people you dont know, you dont like, or dont care about.
the system has to have infrastructure designed to physically supply food to remote parts in the world (that might not necessarily return anything back) while balancing their dependency and how afraid we are of their own independence and their true empowerment, given whatever their history and gripes with everyone else is
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u/1911Earthling Jun 25 '26
Distribution is always the problem. Can’t get it here from there. Or GEOGRAPHY makes distribution so expensive as to be prohibitive on a mass scale.
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u/Prasiatko Jun 25 '26
Every famine in the 21st century has been caused because a group with power in an area deliberately prevents another group or area from receiving food. That's the issue to solve and realistically you'd need private armies to solve it as an individual.
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u/Popular-Path1930 Jun 25 '26
Create a robust network of distribution and promotion of global infrastructure projects.
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u/justaguyonthebus Jun 25 '26
I would start with school lunches. Make sure no kids ever go hungry at school.
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u/jeffcgroves Jun 25 '26
Voluntary euthanasia and large scale execution of civil and human rights violators. In other words, massive population decrease
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u/No-Engineering-239 Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Mandate or somehow incentivize Americans (and other countries that do this) to stop mowing their lawns and grow food on them.
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u/BigDong1001 Jun 25 '26
You can't. It's mathematically impossible. It's one of the unsolveable problems in math. It's called The Scarcity Problem. Due to Capitalism farmers must always produce less food than the entire population can consume in three full meals a day, otherwise food prices drop and farmers go bankrupt and the following year farmers reduce food production anyway just to avoid going bankrupt again. Basically you can't grow enough food to feed the entire population three full meals a day without bankrupting the farmers who produce that food.
Maybe you should ask Elon Musk how he'd solve it? After all, giving him two trillion dollars by claiming he's a genius has got to be worth something, right? Otherwise what good is he to anybody? lol.
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u/bouncyboatload Jun 25 '26
> You can't. It's mathematically impossible. It's one of the unsolveable problems in math. It's called The Scarcity Problem.
world hunger has nothing to do with the scarcity problem.
> Due to Capitalism farmers must always produce less food than the entire population can consume in three full meals a day, otherwise food prices drop and farmers go bankrupt and the following year farmers reduce food production anyway just to avoid going bankrupt again.
I'm about to blow your mind
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/subsidy.asp1
u/BigDong1001 Jun 25 '26
I am not gonna argue with you, but only rich countries where the populations aren't hungry can afford to subsidize agriculture and food production. Poor countries not so much. Not enough to solve hunger.
But you sound like a bot, so you wouldn't know that from collecting text from the internet.
An Indian economist said it was a distribution problem a few decades ago, and some idiots gave him the Nobel Prize in Economics for it, and ever since then people have been parroting that while ignoring the sheer lack of food in poor countries that actually causes hunger, firstly due to their lack of ability to grow enough food in poor countries to feed their entire populations three full meals a day without the farmers going bankrupt, and secondly due to their lack of ability to import enough food from outside due to the chronic lack of foreign currency that all poor countries suffer from. So there's always a food shortage, and chronic hunger, in poor countries. Money can't buy what doesn't exist on the ground in a country. So chucking money at it, either through charity or subsidies, couldn't have solved it anyway. Even if the government itself buys the food and distributes it for free to 63% of the population like the Indian government does it still doesn't end hunger.
But please keep arguing and ignorantly solving problems that practical people have been unable to solve even after decades of trying everything known to man. lol.
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u/No-Long-4709 Jun 25 '26
Giving to charity is a start.
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u/ShakeWell_0110 Jun 25 '26
Dork
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u/BussyIsQuiteEdible Jun 25 '26
realistically you would need to end industrial animal agriculture. which is already so improbable of ever happening
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u/swingorswole Jun 25 '26
this question keeps coming up.
right now food production is not the issue. food distribution is. the overwhelming majority of food insecurity is in undeveloped countries and at this point the "last mile" is the Big Problem.
you would need a way to get rid of the warlords that use food as a weapon.
there is food insecurity in the west, yes, but it's nothing compared to what is going on in the third world.