List 2 steps that u would take to improve agriculture in order to produce more food for people who are hungry?

Question

If you were a world leader, list two steps you would take to improve agriculture in order to produce more food for people who are hungry?

Answer 1

Other than being able to grow and harvest more of more crops in more places...

(I could tell you several agronomic methods.)

HOWEVER,

Food shortages are often Not due the Production,

but due to Distribution problems and Politics.

Many foods are perishable,

often no proper storage facilities and too much time.

They go bad before they reach their destination.

The U.S. has alot of surplus food.

Often bought by the government e.g. USDA for food programs or shipped abroad.

If we send a cargo plane of wheat to Somalia,

most likely the shipment will be jacked at the warehouse by government pirates, war lords etc.,

thus not reach the starving citizens.

The food will go to the rich for their consumption

or often resold to buy weapons,

which can be used on their citizens or on us.

Birth control is another solution.

Starving adults make starving children.

The comedian George Carlin said.

Don't send food or money to the starving people in the African deserts.

Send them UHauls so they can move out of the desert,

nothing grows in the desert, you can't eat sand, MOVE!

He added:

In the US,

Rich politicians and special interest people play golf.

They meet there and talk about agendas that will eventually lead to more homeless people.

The solution is two-fold,

have homeless people move onto golf courses.

Plenty of them, nice grass, nice communities.

Politicians, Miss America and others when running for election will announce they want to win the war on povery and hunger.  

However, It was, is and always will be this way.

This war will never be won.

Life is one big bell shaped curve.

Certain factions (the people on the far right side of the curve)want it this way.

Answer 2

ban the manufacture and spaying of crops with nicotine like compounds, a bee farmer on 60 minutes suspects as causing the bee population to plummet.

If we do not do something to stop the destruction of the bee there will be widescale famine throughout the US.

Answer 3

Education on how to grow food crops and government impute in aiding the farmers is getting the equipment and inputs that they so badly need to farm.  Having said that, the biggest thing preventing these things from happening already on a grand scale is corruption in governments that prevents food and any inputs that are available from getting to the people that need them to farm. The US and some European Countries as well as the UN have the desire and the ability to get these programs started but have been unable in many cases to get by the corrupt governments.

Answer 4

I WOULD BREAK UP THE HUGE FACTORY FARMS AND STOP THE USE OF PAYMENTS TO FARMERS TO LEAVE THEIR LAND FALLOW.

Answer 5

I heard Norman Borlag speak last month. He said that  Infrastructure is critical to solving the problem of hunger, especially in Africa.  You cannot transport seed of improved varieties or fertlilizers with out road;  Cash crops cannot be transported without roads.  Hunger is about distribution of resources.  Worlwide cooperation among plant breeders would help too.

Answer 6

I would just like to point out to abelincoln that using nicotine is an approved Organic pesticide. Seems like there is something wrong with that. Most people think that just because something is organically raised that they do not use any kind of pesticide. They still use highly toxic substances  - just no synthentics.

My 2 steps would be the following......

Use more computer technology to improve the yield that comes from the farms. there is many gps technologies that are not commonly used but are now avaliable.

We need to restructure the transportation problem. There is no shortage in certain commodities on the market. They are sold to overseas or anywhere else. they just need to be able to get to the market that needs them. Increases in oil costs have risen the transportation costs and that makes it harder for people who need those supplies to get to them.

Answer 7

The production of more food do not always result in reaching the hungry.

Rather focus on distribution networks.

Note the hungry usually don't have the money to buy food.