That number is probably grossly inflated. This [1] article on famine indicates about 75,000 people die per year due to famine or the lack of food. That's down f

That number is probably grossly inflated. This [1] article on famine indicates about 75,000 people die per year due to famine or the lack of food. That's down from 928,000 a year from the 19th century (now consider that in percent populations!). You can attribute many things to hunger when the causes are not necessarily primarily hunger. But for the sake of argument. Let's imagine that number was true. The stupefying thing is even that number is surprisingly positive. There are currently 7.6 billion people in the world. Numbers like this are really hard to wrap your head around, but to put that another way that means that, even if we pretend that number is real, that means that 99.9% of this world have enough food to get by. Think about all of the countries doing completely idiotic things and all the warfare going on which tends to cause starvation. In spite of all that 99.9% of people have enough to get by? That is really quite remarkable! And as mentioned the big problem here is not a lack of money or a lack of arable land or anything like that. It tends to be because of bad decisions. Zimbabwe, the former 'breadbasket of Africa' is the poster child here. They chose to forcibly confiscate the land of experienced farmers (without compensation) because of their skin color, and then redistribute it to people with minimal farming experience. Around the same time they also decided to try to become socialist ruining the extrinsic (financial) motivation to maximize production. You'll never guess what happened next! So what do you want to do there? You're not going to solve that country's issues by donating to a charity or even pursuing greater foreign aid. They need to either solve their own issues (which they do seem to be making progress towards - having recently staged an armed coup) or you're left to start another war for some good old fashioned 'regime change' in which case we often end up screwing things up even worse in the longrun, if not in the shortrun, as war and hunger tend to go together. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine#21st_century