Yes but the conditions outlined in your second sentence tend to prevent the remedies in your first. Also, don't forget climate change. The Sahara has been steadily pushing south turning farmland into desert.
BTW, just to show how complex the problem truly is, consider what happens when outsiders send grain to Africa. Yes, much of it gets to the refugee camps to feed the starving (and a lot gets stolen, too) but it also depresses the price of grain which devastates the farmers who are still able to produce a crop. Its the old 'give a man a fish or teach him to fish' analogy except there are no fish. You can't grow crops in a desert without extensive irrigation which they don't have either.
The problem is overwhelming.
BTW, just to show how complex the problem truly is, consider what happens when outsiders send grain to Africa. Yes, much of it gets to the refugee camps to feed the starving (and a lot gets stolen, too) but it also depresses the price of grain which devastates the farmers who are still able to produce a crop. Its the old 'give a man a fish or teach him to fish' analogy except there are no fish. You can't grow crops in a desert without extensive irrigation which they don't have either.
The problem is overwhelming.
