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by swe
3775 days ago
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Numbers vary, but somewhere between 7-12 calories of hydrocarbon energy in every 1 calorie of food. That's precooked; afterwards it can be 25 or more. The entire food system is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon energy and long supply lines. Take oil and natural gas away and billions of people would starve to death. |
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The world produces enough food to feed everyone. For the world as a whole, per capita food availability has risen from about 2220 kcal/person/day in the early 1960s to 2790 kcal/person/day in 2006-08, while developing countries even recorded a leap from 1850 kcal/person/day to over 2640 kcal/person/day. This growth in food availability in conjunction with improved access to food helped reduce the percentage of chronically undernourished people in developing countries from 34 percent in the mid 1970s to just 15 percent three decades later. (FAO 2012, p. 4) The principal problem is that many people in the world still do not have sufficient income to purchase (or land to grow) enough food."
Taken from http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20f....
I did not want to just say 'there is enough food, but the distribution is not fair'.