Oh, for sure transporting food across the world is a disastrously inefficient way to solve it.

I may be wrong about this, but I dont think there are many (if any) food-poor countries that are that way because of a lack of local fertile land.

I don’t think waste and excess are really the issue, but rather misallocation of resources, like you mentioned, raising cattle (or growing coffee/cocoa) over primary foods for profit over basic needs.

Something-something-communism, I suppose.