UN responds to Elon Musk challenge with US$6.6B plan to fight world hunger


The United Nations’ World Food Programme has responded to Tesla founder Elon Musk’s ask for a plan to tackle world hunger with a US$6.6-billion pitch.

On Monday, the executive director of the UN agency unveiled a plan on Twitter after Musk, one of the world’s richest men, challenged him on the social media platform late last month.

“This hunger crisis is urgent, unprecedented, AND avoidable,” tweeted David Beasley. “@elonmusk, you asked for a clear plan & open books. Here it is! We’re ready to talk with you – and anyone else – who is serious about saving lives.”

The plan involves an ask for the world’s wealthiest people to fund a US$6.6-billion initiative to help “save 42 million people from famine” next year, the World Food Programme said on its website.

In its pitch, the UN agency said US$3.5 billion would be used to purchase and deliver food, US$2 billion would go towards cash and food vouchers, US$700 million would be earmarked for countries to design and implement food programs, and US$400 million would ensure proper management of global and regional operations, administration and accountability.

“The world is on fire. I’ve been warning about the perfect storm brewing due to Covid, conflict, climate shocks & now, rising supply chain costs,” Beasley tweeted. “IT IS HERE. 45M lives are at stake—and increasing daily. If you don’t feed people, you feed conflict, destabilization & mass migration.”

Musk has yet to respond on Twitter, but on Oct. 31 said in a tweet that if the World Food Programme could describe how US$6 billion would help solve world hunger, he’d “sell Tesla stock right now and do it.”

Musk’s challenge was in response to a CNN story in which Beasley said the world’s richest people could help solve world hunger, and called out Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
 
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Elon should donate a fraction of that money that would help to apply that plan in an specific area only to prove whether their plan is viable. Say, $10M for a small African town. If, in the next five years, that town is successful, then continue.

Spoiler, it won't.
 
So (here's) the link to the plan itself.

WFP's plan to support 42 million people on the brink of famine​

US$6.6 billion could avert catastrophe
As stated earlier in this thread, the terms were to end world hunger, not alleviate it.

3 November 2021
Interesting, this has been up for half a month but this news story and the archive didn't happen until now? Is this the same as the plan from the original story but rebranded?

The US$6.6 billion required would help those in most need in the following way: one meal a day, the basic needed to survive – costing US$0.43 per person per day, averaged out across the 43 countries. This would feed 42 million people for one year, and avert the risk of famine.
One meal a day. This plan gets people ONE FUCKING MEAL A DAY. Pay autistic attention to when they say "hunger" vs "starvation" vs "famine", those are very different levels of sustinence and these fucking snake oil salesmen have no problem with pulling a bait and switch on you.

The demand was a plan to end world hunger. When I eat one meal a day - even back in college on the all you can eat meal plan - I still hunger and starve.

This plan is woefully insufficient.

This plan focuses on assisting around 42 million people (in 43 out of the total 85 countries where WFP operates)
Looks like in addition to downgrading from solving hunger to alleviating famine, they downgraded from worldwide to half of the countries they operate in.

Fuck these people, Elon could give them the money and they could follow the plan perfectly without embezzling a cent and there would still be world hunger and the grift would still continue. It wouldn't even matter if there's open accounting when the plan literally does not address the challenge posed.

E: OK the original thread says "solve", not "end". I think my substitution is more fair vs in spirit of the message than replacing hunger with famine, at least.

And the challenge was 6B. They came in 600M over budget, to address only a fraction of the problem, and they think they deserve a reward. They don't even deserve a participation award, a $4.5 trophy could feed someone for 10 days, at your own rate of 1 meal per day and 43 cents a meal. Including customization and shipping, a shitty You Tried consolation prize would probably feed someone for a month. They'd be starving at only one meal a day, but at least they'd avoid famine, and that's good enough, right???
 
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Idiotic clout chasing on twitter from the U.N. of all places lolz. This guy proposes his plan thinking anyone values the U.N. as trustworthy and uncorrupted. These people already have wasted trillions in its almost century long existence, were supposed to believe if we'll just trust them this time with 6 bil they will actually accomplish something? Go fund more genocide U.N. and kindly fuck off!
 
The demand was a plan to end world hunger. When I eat one meal a day - even back in college on the all you can eat meal plan - I still hunger and starve.
I assume they mean end hunger in areas where people are already starving, say Africa or Asia, where people are severely underfed and not only need to get food, they need special food to get them healthy. One meal a day won't solve that at all, specially if we talking about children.

In any case, you don't solve world hunger by just giving food away, because when we mean "hungry" isn't the same hungry as a normal person who's back home after a full day of work, we mean people who are sick for the lack of proper nutrition and can't access food.

Whoever wrote this plan is just offering serving people daily meals eternally so people won't die starving. That's not a solution.
 
FI assume they mean end hunger in areas where people are already starving, say Africa or Asia, where people are severely underfed and not only need to get food, they need special food to get them healthy. One meal a day won't solve that at all, specially if we talking about children.
That special food thing is a good insight - I know that one charity claims to offer 25 cent meals, so saying it takes 43 cents to do a meal sounded like overkill. I tried to rationalize it as being a bigger meal - thus the college all you can eat parallel - so I wouldn't have to jump straight to embezzlement. I guess if they were doing recovery vitamins instead of maintenance vitamins, that does cost more...

And :feels: but I can think of one way it would suffice for kids. I don't like it and don't want to incorporate it into the plan, but I believe kids are more willing to eat mud cookies to tide themselves over than adults are. Actually making that the plan is as much a dick move as Walmart doing "how to get on food stamps" worker training because they know that's how little they're paying, however.

I guess I'm mostly bitter because I know that they were trying to make Musk look like a greedy Scrouge McDuck, and going like "For what is basically pennies to him, he could make the world a better place, forever. Just this one time fee for a good that will outlive any other legacy he can imagine."

And then I look at that proposal and... No. If Elon Musk implemented that plan himself and said he saved the world, I'd say he's so out of touch and I don't want to live in his dystopia.

I guess it's possible that I misremembered/misinterpreted the original story, which the different definitions of "hunger" can play into. But I really feel like if the claim was only about literally starving to death, it's kind of a non-story. They have no right to Elon Musk's money either way, but if he can change the world that cheaply then the prestige it brings might be worth it just for the sheer free advertising. But if it just maintains suffering worldwide, it's not that glorious at all. The next questions would be, "why didn't he do more?", "how much are they going to ask for next time?", and "how long until they ask for more than he earns?"

It's just so tiresome. Either the original claim was as big as I believed so this plan falls short, or the original claim was far less than I understood it to be and it was a total non-story.
 
Isn't the majority of the problem with African (and to an extent, South American in areas near the Amazon) farming the "slash and burn" technique? The freshly cleared land is arable for a few years at best, and then quickly turns barren because the farmers there haven't figured out simple crop rotation techniques, as well as not planting anything in certain areas (fallow plots/fields) in order for the land to recover nutrients that would otherwise be completely sapped by farming.
Can't speak for South America, but Africa is full of fucking retards who don't understand what "maintaining" means. After Rhodesia (once the "Bread Basket of Africa") got reclaimed by Africans; they could barely achieve sustenance farming and had to ask the International Community for help to feed themselves. Because a bunch of retards took over and surprise, not even the guys who used to be day laborers on the farms had the acumen to keep the farms producing nor the willingness to learn... and it was all whitey's fault (they dindu muffin). And it's not just them, if you've ever seen those feel good peace corps jobs and shit, they'll go over to Africa, do everything they can to give them solar panels, teach them farming and irrigation, etc. Only to come back a year later and everything's fallen apart; because the idiots didn't think they'd have to weed the fields, or replant seeds, or anything else. A majority of the "World's Hungry" are hungry by choice and living off the good graces of white people's guilt. And the Cherry on top of the Shit Sundae, is there's a university in South Africa; where a pack of black girls were legitimately arguing the equitable nature of their tribal curses and ability to throw lightning against the "white man's science." University students, legitimately arguing curses and throwing lightning as opposed to science and math. These people are too fucking stupid to live, but yet we keep them around.

The South Americans at least seem competent enough to grow Cocoa, Bananas, and other shit and it takes an idiot like Maduro to get everyone starving... at least... from my Burgerland perspective.
 
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And it's not just them, if you've ever seen those feel good peace corps jobs and shit, they'll go over to Africa, do everything they can to give them solar panels, teach them farming and irrigation, etc. Only to come back a year later and everything's fallen apart; because the idiots didn't think they'd have to weed the fields, or replant seeds, or anything else.
There's a 4chan copypasta somewhere about this. Dude dies inside because the people he's trying to help would rather spend their money on alcohol today than fertilizer tomorrow.

I think the copypasta is usually used to show how certain cultures are less aware of the future than others, which is really funny because it's a case of a racists pol meme agreeing with a woke antiraciss museum.
 
The "United Nations" does no background checks for their boots on the ground workers. In *many* instances, this criminal negligence has resulted in child prostitution and child rape. The United Nations should be completely stripped of authority and abolished.

Solving world hunger unquestionably requires incentivized birth control, and would benefit greatly from coordinated eugenics.

Solving world hunger is not in the interests of the elite. They need their poor and desperate. Bullying Elon Musk or any other wealthy person is stupid and meaningless - there is NO organization or system with a remotely appropriate plan to end starvation, and they have never sought to conceive one.

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Here's the full plan. Just look at the work that went into it. That's proof none of the money will be embezzled or used to rape kids.


Executive summary: US$6.6 billion ask

The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that tens of millions of people across 43 countries are on the brink of famine – and the numbers are constantly going up. Urging billionaires to step up and support the fight against hunger, the organization said U$6.6 billion would help avert catastrophe.

In 2020, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP succeeded in reaching more than 115 million people with vital food assistance across 84 countries – the highest figure since 2012. This was only possible through the support of government donors.

With its existing operations in more than 80 countries around the world, WFP is uniquely placed to respond to the urgent needs of more than 40 million people at risk of starvation, and we stand ready to scale up operations wherever needed.

The US$6.6 billion required would help those in most need in the following way: one meal a day, the basic needed to survive – costing US$0.43 per person per day, averaged out across the 43 countries. This would feed 42 million people for one year, and avert the risk of famine.

Below is a snapshot of regions and countries currently most at risk:


Global hunger continues to rise at an alarming rate: our latest estimates show that 282.7 million people across 80 countries are experiencing extreme levels of acute hunger. This represents an increase of around 110 percent compared to 2019 (when 135 million people in 58 countries were classified as acutely food insecure), explained by widespread conflicts, growing climate crises and the economic fallout of COVID- 19, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of millions around the world.

This plan focuses on assisting around 42 million people (in 43 out of the total 85 countries where WFP operates) who currently fall under Integrated Food Security Phase Classification 4 (IPC 4, emergency) and 5 (IPC 5, catastrophe),* thus being at real risk of famine or famine-like conditions unless life-saving assistance is urgently provided. This is illustrated in table 1 below.**

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As a result of the above, urgent funding for a comprehensive package of live-saving assistance to these populations is required, in the form of in-kind distribution and/or the provision of cash and vouchers. US$6.6 billion is needed to avert catastrophe.

This will be allocated as follows: US$3.5 billion for food and its delivery, including the cost of shipping and transport to the country, plus warehousing and “last mile” delivery of food using air, land and river transport, contracted truck drivers and required security escorts in conflict-affected zones to distribute food to those who need it most; US$2 billion for cash and food vouchers (including transaction fees) in places where markets can function - this type of assistance enables those most in need to buy the food of their choice and supports local economies; US$700 million for country-specific costs to design, scale up and manage the implementation of efficient and effective programmes for millions of tons more food and cash transfers and vouchers – adapted to the in-country conditions and operational risks in 43 countries (this includes  office and satellite-office facilities and their security, and the monitoring of distributions and results, ensuring the assistance reaches the most vulnerable); and US$400 million for global and regional operations management, administration and accountability, including coordination of global supply lines and aviation routes; global logistics coordination such as freight contracting; global monitoring and analysis of hunger worldwide; and risk management and independent auditors dedicated to oversight.

The table in the annex show the planned allocation for top 10 recipient countries by transfer modality (food vs. cash-based transfers); the full list can be provided upon request.

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***The analysis reflects costs that vary based on specific circumstances applicable to the distribution country (complexity of the logistics networks, financial infrastructure, availability, and cost of commodities in local markets and fluctuations of local currency...)
 
There's a 4chan copypasta somewhere about this. Dude dies inside because the people he's trying to help would rather spend their money on alcohol today than fertilizer tomorrow.

I think the copypasta is usually used to show how certain cultures are less aware of the future than others, which is really funny because it's a case of a racists pol meme agreeing with a woke antiraciss museum.
It's not even racist /pol/ anymore, it's practically been enshrined in the White Nazi Supremacist Compendium. That Smithsonian BLM exhibit, declaring whiteness is shit like an intact family, time management, and looking to the future. Either there's some /pol/ plants deep in the BLM movement, or... fuck it... they admit the stereotypes are true, but don't want to be judged by it. I mean, who are white people to argue with the superior brain power of the Smithsonian Museum about what whiteness is (and ergo, blackness isn't).

And don't get me wrong; Haiti, Rhodesia, South Africa, all violent revolutions in one way or another, and what replaces the old isn't the straightest in honesty or morality. But you'd figure if these people were legitimately people of vision (they're not), they'd understand you have to feed the proles (or kill them), otherwise you're only gonna rule over an empty fucking kingdom. But they're too short-sighted about that, and for some reason, they cry for help, and the International Community feels bad and gives shit that's quickly intercepted by the ruling warlord and the people still starve. It's like we haven't figured this out yet, because noticing patterns is racist.
 
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Can't speak for South America, but Africa is full of fucking retards who don't understand what "maintaining" means. After Rhodesia (once the "Bread Basket of Africa") got reclaimed by Africans; they could barely achieve sustenance farming and had to ask the International Community for help to feed themselves. Because a bunch of retards took over and surprise, not even the guys who used to be day laborers on the farms had the acumen to keep the farms producing nor the willingness to learn... and it was all whitey's fault (they dindu muffin). And it's not just them, if you've ever seen those feel good peace corps jobs and shit, they'll go over to Africa, do everything they can to give them solar panels, teach them farming and irrigation, etc. Only to come back a year later and everything's fallen apart; because the idiots didn't think they'd have to weed the fields, or replant seeds, or anything else. A majority of the "World's Hungry" are hungry by choice and living off the good graces of white people's guilt. And the Cherry on top of the Shit Sundae, is there's a university in South Africa; where a pack of black girls were legitimately arguing the equitable nature of their tribal curses and ability to throw lightning against the "white man's science." University students, legitimately arguing curses and throwing lightning as opposed to science and math. These people are too fucking stupid to live, but yet we keep them around.

The South Americans at least seem competent enough to grow Cocoa, Bananas, and other shit and it takes an idiot like Maduro to get everyone starving... at least... from my Burgerland perspective.
The reason S. America is fucked has nothing to do with lack of resources, lands, or manpower. There is enough space for people to live comfortable and even more resources to eat whatever you want whenever you want.

The problem is corruption. We have a region that receives 1M (can't remember now if it's $ or local money, but it's still A LOT) daily through mining taxes and that besides what they make with tourism. And yet, they are poor. That happens because their authorities keep all the money and tell people that it's Capitalists' fault.

The Amazon and the Andes are very fertile to grow things, though. The Amazon river also has a lot of food.
 
That special food thing is a good insight - I know that one charity claims to offer 25 cent meals

I remember there was some group looking for volunteers to help prepare quarter meals for needy families. It was weird because the little info pamphlet literally made a point of saying "we can't stop hunger, but we can try to stop malnourishment." and the meal was basically just like a couple cups of uncooked rice and a small packet of dried vegetables and some sort of nutrient supplement.
 
So you want a "White Supremacist" to solve World Hunger? Who wants accountability and planning? How come non Whites who are billionaires are stepping up to the plate or even asked?
 
I remember there was some group looking for volunteers to help prepare quarter meals for needy families. It was weird because the little info pamphlet literally made a point of saying "we can't stop hunger, but we can try to stop malnourishment." and the meal was basically just like a couple cups of uncooked rice and a small packet of dried vegetables and some sort of nutrient supplement.
Sounds similar to the one I linked; their meals are rice + soy + dried vegetables + vitamins. I think it's a different group because they mixed everything into one bag with like half a dozen servings in it though, they didn't keep the dried vegetables separate like they're making a nicer instant noodle pack or something.

No idea about their mission regarding hunger vs malnourishment, but I remember seeing somewhere in the documentation that they do not donate to Americans, and the justification is that they've tried but poor Americans are too picky and will reject the meals. (imagine an angry guy screaming about how nobody really starves to death in America because if you throw your dignity away you can panhandle for a bigmac).

Oh and the vegetables aren't there because vegetables are nutritious. They're there for flavor and a slight crunchy texture, the real healthy part is the powdered vitamins. The target demographic is people in places too poor to panhandle in, who treat vegetables as a treat that makes food interesting. Contrast with the stereotypical American who hates their vegetables.

Not sure if that's anything new to you, but I'm guessing the target demographic thing is why the "nutritious" meal is so sad.

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I enjoy comparing the 25 cent meal place to American public schools. The public school system spends about 1/3 of every lunch dollar on food, that's an F--- in my book. I think charity watch said the 25 cent meal place puts like 90% of every dollar towards food. I know the quality of food is different, but I'm looking at it in ratios, 90% is way more impressive than 33%
 
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Here's the full plan. Just look at the work that went into it. That's proof none of the money will be embezzled or used to rape kids.


Executive summary: US$6.6 billion ask

The World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that tens of millions of people across 43 countries are on the brink of famine – and the numbers are constantly going up. Urging billionaires to step up and support the fight against hunger, the organization said U$6.6 billion would help avert catastrophe.

In 2020, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, WFP succeeded in reaching more than 115 million people with vital food assistance across 84 countries – the highest figure since 2012. This was only possible through the support of government donors.

With its existing operations in more than 80 countries around the world, WFP is uniquely placed to respond to the urgent needs of more than 40 million people at risk of starvation, and we stand ready to scale up operations wherever needed.

The US$6.6 billion required would help those in most need in the following way: one meal a day, the basic needed to survive – costing US$0.43 per person per day, averaged out across the 43 countries. This would feed 42 million people for one year, and avert the risk of famine.

Below is a snapshot of regions and countries currently most at risk:


Global hunger continues to rise at an alarming rate: our latest estimates show that 282.7 million people across 80 countries are experiencing extreme levels of acute hunger. This represents an increase of around 110 percent compared to 2019 (when 135 million people in 58 countries were classified as acutely food insecure), explained by widespread conflicts, growing climate crises and the economic fallout of COVID- 19, disrupting the lives and livelihoods of millions around the world.

This plan focuses on assisting around 42 million people (in 43 out of the total 85 countries where WFP operates) who currently fall under Integrated Food Security Phase Classification 4 (IPC 4, emergency) and 5 (IPC 5, catastrophe),* thus being at real risk of famine or famine-like conditions unless life-saving assistance is urgently provided. This is illustrated in table 1 below.**

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As a result of the above, urgent funding for a comprehensive package of live-saving assistance to these populations is required, in the form of in-kind distribution and/or the provision of cash and vouchers. US$6.6 billion is needed to avert catastrophe.

This will be allocated as follows: US$3.5 billion for food and its delivery, including the cost of shipping and transport to the country, plus warehousing and “last mile” delivery of food using air, land and river transport, contracted truck drivers and required security escorts in conflict-affected zones to distribute food to those who need it most; US$2 billion for cash and food vouchers (including transaction fees) in places where markets can function - this type of assistance enables those most in need to buy the food of their choice and supports local economies; US$700 million for country-specific costs to design, scale up and manage the implementation of efficient and effective programmes for millions of tons more food and cash transfers and vouchers – adapted to the in-country conditions and operational risks in 43 countries (this includes  office and satellite-office facilities and their security, and the monitoring of distributions and results, ensuring the assistance reaches the most vulnerable); and US$400 million for global and regional operations management, administration and accountability, including coordination of global supply lines and aviation routes; global logistics coordination such as freight contracting; global monitoring and analysis of hunger worldwide; and risk management and independent auditors dedicated to oversight.

The table in the annex show the planned allocation for top 10 recipient countries by transfer modality (food vs. cash-based transfers); the full list can be provided upon request.

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***The analysis reflects costs that vary based on specific circumstances applicable to the distribution country (complexity of the logistics networks, financial infrastructure, availability, and cost of commodities in local markets and fluctuations of local currency...)
>US$2 billion for cash and food vouchers (including transaction fees) in places where markets can function - this type of assistance enables those most in need to buy the food of their choice and supports local economies;

2 billion in literal gibs
 
In any case, you don't solve world hunger by just giving food away, because when we mean "hungry" isn't the same hungry as a normal person who's back home after a full day of work, we mean people who are sick for the lack of proper nutrition and can't access food.
Nevermind that restaurants and vendors in Africa would be fucked.

It's like the whole Tom's Shoes conundrum. You have a corrupt government that lets Western countries donate shoes that are not only of higher quality, but free, to Africa. Meanwhile, you have hundreds of shoemakers in Africa who are now struggling/out of a job because they've been blown out by "competition".

 
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