World Faces Epic Food Crisis

So my mornings mainly consist of getting ready and then going downstairs to make my lunch and make my breakfast. I don't do anything crazy, my life is built off of routine so I try to keep to that routine as much as possible. I make my lunch, put it in my backpack and then look at the time to judge how much time I have to eat breakfast. This morning I had a little extra time so I made me a nice bowl of cereal and sat down at the kitchen table with my coffee in hand and flipped open the latest "Time" magazine we have.

When I got to my favorite section, entitled, "World: Briefing" I read up on the nuclear issues in Germany, the soccer scandal in Switzerland and then I got to an interesting and frustrating article entitled, "World Faces Epic Food Crisis" reported from the UK. In this article, two diagrams are illustrated to show the estimated rise in the cost of basic food staples like paddy rice, wheat, maize and processed rice by 2030 and a chart depicting what that means for developed countries and developing countries.

In the article, the journalist writes, "the London-based charity Oxfam says the 'international community is sleepwalking' toward humanitarian catastrophe, as rising food prices threaten to cause a range of demographic and social crises." This made me frustrated because food is a basic necessity. All human deserve to be fed, to be happy and to be respected (Catholic Social Teaching shpeal).

How many times have I had a full refrigerator and wondered, "dang, what am I going to eat tonight for dinner?" or thought, "ugh...there are just too many choices!" How many times have I seen my kids throw away perfectly good bunches of grapes or half sandwiches or cartons of juice just because they were "full"? It's upsetting to think that while some of us sit comfortable, in fact more than comfortable, with our food choices and our wasteful tendencies, that there are many out there (even within our own U-S-of-A) who have either only one choice for dinner or none at all.

My question is this...how can we solve the world hunger problem? If some have more than enough and many have barely enough to get by, how can we make that more fair and equal? I'm not a socialist or communist (hahaha) so don't start in on me about those labels, but I am a human being, with a human heart that calls me to love all and respect all and this human heart has a hard time grappling with the fact that some are way more privileged than others in many areas of life but it's especially disheartening when it applies to the basic necessities for living like food. No one should ever go hungry and if the problem is only getting worse, and we're conscious that it's getting worse, how come we don't work to stop it?