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As child mortality drops, so do birth rates. The effect just lags a bit as people change their behaviour. Healthy secure people will have less babies, because they don't need to have so many.

Letting a small number of people die of hunger is not going to change that equation. In fact it may have the opposite effect.

And food aid is a small minority of all aid. Long term programs to build local capability are already the vast majority of money spent.

[beerlord]

If this was the case then populations wouldn't be expanding - too many people would be dying before reaching reproductive age.

Its simpler than that. Women in many parts of the world have no agency, and no access to contraception. Change those two things (this should be the REAL battle of feminists) and you will go a long way to solving overpopulation.