End Poverty 2015?

The morons pretending to care about us and running things are pocketing the baby formula money by the trillions.

It's not going to get better as long as greedy capitalists own the world.

Why not do something positive? http://www.kiva.org/

I would like to point out that the problem isn't with the amount of food available in the world, but the cost of transport. Even if overproducing countries were to give food away for free, by the time the food got to the areas where it is needed, the cost of transport would put it out of the reach of the typical consumer in that region. This will only get worse with rising oil prices.

It may sound harsh, but the only real solutions to the problems are:

Reversal of local environmental problems.
Investment in agricultural research, education and improvement in semi-marginal areas.
Encouraging migration to more environmentally sustainable regions.
Reduction of population sizes in very marginal areas. (I.e. gradual phasing out of non-emergency food aid, encouraging contraception, and of course migration.)

These measures will be difficult, cause a lot of disruption and emotional anguish, but they are really the only things that will permanently solve the problem.

However, people on all sides of the fence are unlikely to agree to these measures, as either being uneconomic, culturally damaging or even "inhumane". Thought what exactly is humane about giving people food to live in an unsustainable region rather than an immigration pass or a chance at developing a sustainable agriculture I really can't see.

we are short of energy, water and food. only the rich (ya we are rich as we have internet) can access the resources.

we should have enough food for everyone but we are selfish ...

I say no change.

The Kenny Index (?), which measures the extreme difference between wealth and poverty, is ever increasing in developed countries. In other developing countries, the wealthy and the poor are also being separated further and further. Social tensions are breaking out all over, and as long as we continue to operate the way we do, that is NOT going to change.

It is a pipe dream to eliminate poverty.

We have increasing global population and less food supply now. The best we can do is control the situation with better food production technology and logistics. But in the next 5 years, the poverty situation will only get worse before it gets better. Lots of countries will suffer from global inflation and soaring food price.

The rising of Brazil, India and China consume more the world resources. The supply will get worse in addition with extreme global warming.

Anyway as you can read this article online, you are already living in the best of the best world. Share with us if we can do anything for the poor as we are "overly" blessed.