STARVATION BY DESIGN

STARVATION BY DESIGN
How Systems, Power, and Profit Keep the World Hungry
733 million people are hungry today. The world produces enough food for ten billion. This is not a crisis of scarcity - it is a crime of design.

In Starvation by Design, investigative author Dadhiram Basumatary dismantles the most dangerous myth of our time: that global hunger is a natural disaster, an unfortunate inevitability of geography, climate, or overpopulation. It is not. It is a policy. It is a profit model. It is a system working exactly as intended - by those who benefit from it.

Drawing on data from the FAO, World Food Programme, UNEP, and peer-reviewed research across four continents, this book traces the engineered architecture of hunger from seed patents to food speculation, from agricultural subsidies to supermarket supply chains, from colonial land policy to the modern algorithms of commodity trading.

You will meet Amara - seven years old, clinically malnourished in Niger - and Ravi, a cotton farmer in Maharashtra whose fields, crops, and life were systematically dismantled by a corporation that never once visited his village. You will also meet the commodities trader who executed a $47 million wheat transaction in eleven seconds and had no idea what his lunch cost a child in the Sahel.

Starvation by Design is a book that refuses comfort. It is investigative journalism fused with philosophical inquiry, grounded in hard data and humanized through unflinching storytelling. It does not ask for sympathy. It demands clarity - the kind that makes silence impossible.

Inside, you will discover:

• Why 1/3 of all food produced globally is wasted while 733 million go hungry
• How 10 corporations control 80% of the world's processed food supply
• Why hunger and obesity coexist in the same neighborhoods - and the same households
• How agricultural subsidies in wealthy nations destroy food sovereignty in the Global South
• What it would actually cost - and take - to end hunger by 2030