How to Feed the World

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  Posted By: smokey_joe @ 05/24/2008 12:30:10 AM

  Here's a simple idea to make a dent in hunger in the Philippines that has experienced rice shortages and high prices recently: If the world Bank can set up financing to buy one of those shiny new rice harvesting machines to send to the Philippines and people around the world can contribute a little bit to make the payments for the harvester, then the people in the Philippines can increase their production of rice and lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. If the first machine works well, then more could be bought later. I think the World Bank would like to see everyone's email about that idea.

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  Posted By: smokey_joe @ 05/22/2008 6:05:31 PM

  The other night I saw a segment of the TV series "Modern Marvels" in which they showed a brand new rice harvesting machine that can harvest tons of rice in muddy fields with only a single driver running the machine. This type of equipment will probably only be available to American farmers for some time to come. But it shows how much America can do to relieve world hunger while earning a decent profit and solving some of our foreign trade deficit problems. I know there are vast tracts of unused land in Florida that would be ideal for this type of agriculture.

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  Posted By: smokey_joe @ 05/15/2008 5:59:33 PM

  When ethanol from cellulosic biomass and liquid fuel from coal grow in production volume and vehicles are running on $1.00 per gallon fuel, then food prices will drop and food production will increase because of the reduction in cost to run all the farm machines that plant, fertilize, irrigate, harvest and transport food crops to the marketplace.