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: we can't just let people die. But it means we have to send food aid all the time now, unlike decades ago, because the population is simply larger than the lan
by ekm2 13y ago
: we can't just let people die. But it means we have to send food aid all the time now, unlike decades ago, because the population is simply larger than the land can support, except in its best years, and it makes the people essentially permanently dependent on outside aid.
It is worth noting that the Samburu tribe is one of the smallest and live in the least sparsely populated area with the worst rainfall conditions.Central and Western Kenya are heavily populated and do not need food caravans to survive.
Basically, the problem you talk about has more do with the political complication of wealth distribution than with overpopulation.
- brc 13y agoPeople need food aid not because they are in a drought, but because they can't trade with the people who have the food. Solve that problem, and you solve the food problem. Lots of people live in inhospitable, drought stricken countries at a population level that the land itself could never support. The key is in trade. The people have to develop something they can trade for food to escape from food aid.
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- bane 13y agoIf they trade labor for food, they can move out of the drought stricken areas into more food productive ones.