A refugee child from South Sudan feeds on supplements at a refugee camp in Ethiopia. Picture: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters

Lawrence Zammit’s article of April 24 rightly includes the important matter of how production (goods) is distributed.

This is a crux feature (but one that is apparently almost totally ignored) of practically all the world’s problems.

It requires a lot of good will but also a lot of original thinking, and bravery too, to put in place a worldwide system which in some way makes a dent in the outrageous reality of food waste in developed countries while people die of hunger every day.

It irks me a lot that the UN, FAO and World Bank have still not managed – with the support of member states and leading religions – to structure a working organisation that efficiently collects, stores and transports to the poor countries, in an ongoing manner, all that is surplus in the richer nations. In Malta alone some 25 per cent of all the food bought is thrown away, and the figures for bigger countries are even more worrying.

It is not a sin to imagine, and hope, in the face of such realities.

Imagine... just as there exist so many national airlines for humans, cannot there also exist one big, supranational airline – call it Air Caritas – which could be jointly led and managed by the UN and the Holy See but owned equally by all the nations of the world? Its sole job would be that of picking up surplus food and transporting it to wherever food poverty is rampant.

All religions and all humanitarian NGOs in the food-wasting world would act as depots for food to be sent wherever people are sick and dying from hunger or undernourishment.

There is no valid reason why people should die of hunger, anywhere.