thought that the earth has plenty of useable land for growing crops to nourish the world. “The fact that we have 6 billion people in the world in not why we have starving people. It is thought that poverty is ultimately the problem of world starvation, not population expansion. We have the surplus of food to feed all the worlds people” (Ayittey, Washington Post, A26). The United States currently produces an abundant amount of food creating a surplus of crops. However, countries still remain malnourished and starved because these surpluses of crops are not being distributed to the needed. It is argued the wealthier more affluent countries such as the US who produce surpluses of crops should distribute food to those countries in need. Distribution of surplus food to those less fortunate is the answer to would hunger—not decreasing the population. Stimulation of food production with the advances in technology is the key to solving the worlds hunger problem and is the third theory of world starvation solutions. Malthus assumed that population would exceed food supplies, but he failed to project the benefits of the advances in technologies and medicine on world starvation. Scientists are constantly finding ways to increase food production and distribution with advances in farming and crop rotation. More food can be grown in smaller patches of land with innovations in farming equipment and cultivating techniques than ever before. Scientific advances such as cloning food is another means of expanding food productions in the world which along with technology can increase food production thus elimination world hunger. Argued by the author of Life on Earth is Getting Better, Not Worse, Julian Simon claims the per person food production in the world in up over the last 30 years because of advances in technology. It is thought that as long as technology can keep up with the world’s population there will be no...
