Meanwhile in South Africa there are food issues... Why not plant vegetables instead of flowers?
Also to note: workers get $70/mo, while all other middle-men involved get more.
Also to note: workers get $70/mo, while all other middle-men involved get more.
The world has more than enough food growing to feed everyone.
It's a logistics problem. In this case, when everyone working to pick the plants and distribute the food makes everyone sick, the system fails.
That's quite a statement you made there, especially in the context of Africa.
Sauce: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6198966/
Right under that they note that our food groups are out of whack, but in terms of calories, we could feed everybody... we just don't. It's not just a problem of profit motives; as GP noted, distribution is a real issue. Many places with famine problems also have issues with government stability, and dropping crates of food from the sky just gives food to the people with guns and vehicles who can secure it. If you think about this problem from the point of view of a legitimately charitable entity with tons of cash, it's still not entirely clear how to end world hunger without either propping up small dictatorships or undermining local sovereignty. The last mile is a hard problem. Edit: and obviously, some people eat too much, and we throw away food because of weird profit motives. I'm not trying to downplay those causes of human misery, just trying to point out that there are other hard decisions to be made on the path to feeding all humans.
As the [dead] sibling states, it is absolutely true, and has been true since the maturing of the Green Revolution in the 70's. Famines since then have all been caused by war and politics, not by weather or crop failures.
On the other hand, some greenhouse businesses I know that do grow some food can be classified as essential businesses and stay open.
Actually there is an interesting optimization problem here. You are a greenhouse grower with a certain number of acres: which plants do you grow to maximize profits? You can grow the most profitable one, but then you don't have a very diverse stock, so you might not get as many buyers. On the other hand, many crops are expensive (in terms of seedling cost, greenhouse heating costs during the winter, opportunity costs because they take a lot time in the greenhouse).. You could sell planning software for this.
If there was shortage of food, it's price would be up and farmers would plant food crops.