I don't think Africa's problems are necessarily ones do to overpopulation (people aren't aware of how immense Africa is as a continent), but they certainly aren't helped by foreign missionaries (Catholic, evangelical, Islamic) reinforcing traditional African taboos about family planning.
It also doesn't help matters that the parts of Africa most threatened by famine are the ones run by the absolute worst governments in the continent.
Businesses avoid building sweatshops in unstable countries with no infrastructure, so employing them is not going to be an option for the poorest and most fragile states.
That's only true for the US businesses, where even a market as developed as Mexico's is still regarded as "emerging". Chinese and Middle Eastern businesses, for good and ill, are far risk averse.
That's a god-awful plan! India didn't eradicate its
tradition of famine by regular US farm aid.
