NationStates Jolt Archive

There are no doubt many nations that are agriculturaly strong, and yet there are also nations that can barely feed their own populations. To try and help solve this problem, I give you the InterFood (International Food aid) proposal.

The basic points:

1)An international organization should be created for the purpose of providing food relief to struggling or famine-afflicted nations.

2)An international 'Food Bank' should be established so that the organization will have a means of providing nations in need with relief.

3)The UN should ask all agriculturally rich nations to join a program that in which they would donate a portion of their agricultural windfalls to the 'food-bank' on an annual basis.

4)The UN should ask all economically rich nations to join an international alliance of 'financier nations' that would provide the necessary funding for the opperation and upkeep of the food bank.

If passed, there would have to be branches of organization set up in every participating country in order to manage the donations. This has the secondary effect of creating many new jobs within those countries, thus helping to lower worldwide unemployment.

(the proposal is currently on page 12 of the UN proposal page.)

Starvation does NOT happen because of lack of food, it happens because of political systems that are dictatorship or anarchy.

Case in point: Africa. In the 1990s, Botswana, which is run by a responsible democratic government, suffered a 33% decline in food production and had completely empty national granariers, yet there was no famine. Whereas in Chad and Somalia, food production only decreased 5% yet this was enough to cause mass starvation.

Historically, no period of mass starvation in Europe or China coincided with food shortages. During the Ming Dynasty, China experienced four major food shortages that were enough to cause mass starvation, yet none of these four actually caused starvation. Whereas, during Mao Ze Dong's Great Leap Forward, food production actually increased, but 40 million people starved to death anyways.

Giving more food to the third world won't help their starvation. I mean just look at how good that worked in Somalia or Bangladesh.

I strongly think that people should support themselves, not the government. If people can't feed themselves, too bad. But I will have privatly run food shelters and the like. Not government run ones though.

Tuff cookies poor people.

I strongly think that people should support themselves, not the government. If people can't feed themselves, too bad. But I will have privatly run food shelters and the like. Not government run ones though.

Tuff cookies poor people.

I volunteer at a soup kitchen... last week 6-oz Sirloin Steak, really good Baked Potatoes cooked with Olive Oil, Fresh Salads, Orange Juice, etc.

This is better than what most middle-class Americans eat and certainly better than what people in teh third-world get. We don't need any government "food aid". What hte government should do is cut agricultural subsidies... this will lower prices in the supermarket by an estimated $10-$20 billion per year.