Notice I did not use "well fed" since one can argue that our diet of sugar and carb consumption is not well fed.
Agreed. :licking: :ashamed:
Hunger in the modern era is mainly a political event. Not a farming problem. People are starving in North Korea due to government policy and actions not because of bad farm practices or bad weather. The Irish famine was a political event spurred by the loss of the potato crop. Ireland EXPORTED food during the famines due British control AND moved people off the land to raise sheep. People were burned out of their VILLAGES in the middle of winter. In today's vocabulary it would be called Ethnic Cleansing. Millions of people in Viet Nam starved to death in the 20's-30's because France was exporting rice to sell overseas. Viet Nam was the largest exporter of rice while its people starved to death by the millions.
Somalia, Ethiopia events are political. Not due to a lack of farming technology.
Africa is just a mess.... Not going there literally or figuratively. :confused2:
Later,
Dan
While there are some cases of artifical shortages caused by pure politics, like N. Korea as you said, many of the conflicts you noted have their roots in disagreement over resources. I agree the level and intensity of disagreement can be amped up by religious, political, tribal or ethnic differences.
We have fights everyday over water and land resources in our own country. We use lawyers and courts, rather than AK47's and machetes, as weapons.
The difference is when we perceive the fight is over something that one side or the other doesn't really need, they just want it. We call that political, greed or whatever. It is still a fight over a resource.
Arable land and water in climate zones which support agriculture are not becoming more plentiful. It's logical to assume that as the population expands, fights over those resources will intensify. They will become literal life or death wars. It doesn't seem like a problem we can 'farm' our way out of.
Dave.
