>>14356941We do farm at a scale that can feed the world.
People starving is a resource allocation problem not a resource availability problem.
I'm in a position where I can literally buy a years worth of amino acid and mineral complete calories with a weeks worth of labor. That's presuming I buy it from my local boxmart. If we could access actual bulk prices things look way different, a days labor at minimum wage could almost pay for a years supply of food.
Rice futures are up but even so the bulk price is still only around $0.19 usd / 2200 k calories. The beans and other staples required to stave off nutrient deficiencies are not that much more.
Niger, the least developed nation in the world has a per capita GDP of $565 usd, it takes around $85 to feed someone a more or less nutritionally complete diet based off commodities market prices. Even if logistics doubles those prices no nation on this earth should have a problem keeping it's population fed.
It should also be trivial for a nation to stockpile a ten years supply of calories for it's entire population. If you nitrogen purge this stuff and keep it dry it lasts 30 or so years easily. You could rotate the stockpile so you sell off the 11 year old goods as you add new ones in the rotation.
