Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger?

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We're often told just how productive a capitalist economy is. We produce far more than we need...so why are there still so many hungry and malnourished people? In this episode we'll investigate the real cause of world hunger, and assess whether capitalism has the tools to solve this massive problem.

Can Capitalism Solve World Hunger? – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:

The Elon Musk world hunger tweet saga
https://www.abc10.com/article/news/ve...
https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/elon-m...

829 million people/~10% of people
https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/w...

25,000 daily deaths https://www.theworldcounts.com/challe...

3.1 million children die of malnutrition every year
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de...

World hunger is on the rise
https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/w...

Famines
https://www.wfp.org/stories/hunger-ho...

Food insecurity affects 38 million Americans
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-...

Food insecurity affects 8% of American children
https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/...

We produce enough to feed 10 billion people
https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012...

Our Changing Climate’s food waste video
   • Food Waste causes Climate Change. Here's h...  

⅓ of the food produced, 1.3 billion tons, gets wasted each year
https://www.wfp.org/stories/5-facts-a... approximately%20 US%241%20 trillion

Food waste along the supply chain
https://www.foodengineeringmag.com/ar...

34% of the food grown gets wasted at the farm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Farmers respond to price fluctuations
https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-prod...

Farm waste during the pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/bu...

“Ugly produce” companies aren’t helping
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/ar...
https://newrepublic.com/article/15259...

Best before dates aren’t regulated/standardized
https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-was...

40 million Americans live in food deserts
https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-a...

Supermarkets stock 10x larger food products and plates have increased 36% in size
http://www.meta-systems.eu/nickbrown/...

Refrigerators have gotten 30% bigger and cost half as much
https://appliance-standards.org/produ...

The commodification of food
https://jacobin.com/2017/03/food-prod...

Structural adjustment programs
https://www.globalissues.org/article/...

Gambian fish story
https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/202...

Food for beginners
https://archive.org/details/FoodForBe...

World hunger book (outdated statistics, but the analysis is still relevant)
https://www.tni.org/files/download/ho...
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org....

Twelve myths about world hunger
http://cf.linnbenton.edu/artcom/socia...

Food justice is class war
https://jacobin.com/2016/09/agricultu...

Unequal exchange
   • How Rich Countries Rob The Poor; The Failu...  
https://www.tni.org/es/node/4597

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