Is food aid enough?

Time may be running out for the one billion people who cannot find enough food to sustain themselves each day around the planet. Food programs operated by the United Nations and the many NGO's around the globe are only stopgap measures although they are necessary in the short term. The problem is that they are only a temporary measure and will never be able to meet the overall need.

Perhaps it is time to propose the idea of moving populations. In spite of all the programs that try to improve food production such as expensive irrigation systems, resistant seed production, and better fertilizers this will be unsuccessful in the end in certain areas of the planet. There are in areas around the globe that have unfavorable growth conditions yet millions of people live and try to sustain themselves there. The arid areas around the planet can be easily seen as well as the more fertile areas where there is enough moisture and fertile soil to grow food.

Maybe it is time to seriously think about how it might be possible to move large populations from arid areas to more fertile areas of the globe. Obviously mass relocation of populations poses huge logistical and cultural disruption but in the end people need to feel that they are able to sustain themselves.