I may be wrong but ...

Question:  ... If there are 29,000 starving children in Somalia-Kenya, and 10s of thousands of adults out there in the arid, sandy countryside, and the NGOs save them all, where are the going to get the food to sustain all those lives over the long-term?

[Note: I'm just sayin' ...
Starting off on a project without a specified objective is like 
going on a coast-to-coast trip through unfamiliar territory 
without a map.]

Want to play a little game now?  OK, when was the following excerpt written and by whom? (see answer below)

"Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed, clothe, or educate even one half of the number born to them. We see sick, harassed, broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing. We see fathers growing despondent and desperate, because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families. We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families."
 
"It is generally conceded by sociologists and scientists that a nation cannot go on indefinitely multiplying without eventually reaching the point when population presses upon means of subsistence."  More ...



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Answer:
(*) This is a quote from a Margaret Sanger article which she wrote 84 years ago.  Her insights into population growth and control vis-a-vis the ability to care for any excess of children, over two per family, were first published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18. 


Related observation:

Famous Alvin Toffler Quotation

Alvin Toffler (born October 3, 1928) is an American writer and futurist, known for his works discussing the digital revolution, communications revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity.  A former associate editor of Fortune magazine, his early work focused on technology and its impact (through effects like information overload). Then he moved to examining the reaction of and changes in society. "If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it.  True.  But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. "