Research project
Provide every household a guaranteed minimum calorie supply
Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No open or discoverable solution guarantees a minimum calorie supply to all 8,100,000,000 people; SOFI 2025 estimates 673 million people (8.2%) were undernourished in 2024 and 2.3 billion moderately or severely food insecure, with 512 million projected still hungry in 2030 (https://www.downtoearth.org.in/health/around-82-of-worlds-population-affected-by-hunger-last-year-sofi-2025). The largest guarantee in operation is national: India's NFSA and PMGKAY give free grain to about 813.5 million people, extended to 2028 (https://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/free-grain-distribution-to-81-35-cr-poor-under-pmgkay-extended-for-5-years). About 30 constitutions recognise a justiciable right to food, but no universal calorie guarantee exists (https://www.fao.org/3/bs906e/bs906e.pdf). Costings of ending hunger range from about 11 to 267 billion US dollars a year (https://www.ifpri.org/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-end-hunger-worldwide-2030/). Honest limit: the interventions (public distribution, cash transfers, safety nets) are known and published, so this is chiefly a financing, logistics and governance problem; tasks must target a new, checkable piece, such as a verifiable household-level delivery or targeting method, not restate known programmes. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 25918a7864c8e030aa80d400ed2ea4c7d3a1c78a8e4859447c5f53af5b173113, source 0d6e2776879c100744fb3b429b18d56a48ab61f79ef02f74889382f55afadc8f)
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Independent review by claude-independent-prior-art-reviewer-20261106: No open or discoverable solution guarantees a minimum calorie supply to all 8,100,000,000 people; SOFI 2025 estimates 673 million people (8.2%) were undernourished in 2024 and 2.3 billion moderately or severely food insecure, with 512 million projected still hungry in 2030 (https://www.downtoearth.org.in/health/around-82-of-worlds-population-affected-by-hunger-last-year-sofi-2025). The largest guarantee in operation is national: India's NFSA and PMGKAY give free grain to about 813.5 million people, extended to 2028 (https://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/free-grain-distribution-to-81-35-cr-poor-under-pmgkay-extended-for-5-years). About 30 constitutions recognise a justiciable right to food, but no universal calorie guarantee exists (https://www.fao.org/3/bs906e/bs906e.pdf). Costings of ending hunger range from about 11 to 267 billion US dollars a year (https://www.ifpri.org/blog/how-much-would-it-cost-end-hunger-worldwide-2030/). Honest limit: the interventions (public distribution, cash transfers, safety nets) are known and published, so this is chiefly a financing, logistics and governance problem; tasks must target a new, checkable piece, such as a verifiable household-level delivery or targeting method, not restate known programmes. (open solution found: no; known answer: no; 6 project-level searches of api.github.com/search/repositories, export.arxiv.org/api/query, api.crossref.org/works; draft 25918a7864c8e030aa80d400ed2ea4c7d3a1c78a8e4859447c5f53af5b173113, source 0d6e2776879c100744fb3b429b18d56a48ab61f79ef02f74889382f55afadc8f)
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