I guess the Pope is a good man and knows the Bible very well. I was happy to see him get the job. Ad I really disliked the scurrilous attacks against him which came out from under the rocks as soon as he was named.
This pope is one of those men who is likely to get everybody mad at him at one time or the other because he's not respecting anybody's status quo, sacred cows, or conventional wisdom.
But when it comes to food and hunger he is going to have to deal with his own conventional wisdom and deeply held beliefs. We can't continue to increase population on this planet and expect to feed ourselves. It's a mathematical certainty. And it has nothing to do with poor distribution. So he's going to have to show if he's indeed ready to act on all fronts and stop forbidding contraception and behaving as a medieval wonk when it comes to abortion and women's rights. If he shows he's like a claymore mine and only shoots shrapnel outwards and doesn't deal with outdated church dogma then he's going to fail.
Furthermore, the key to ending hunger, besides solving the overpopulation and environmental collapse as we have seen in countries such as Rwanda and Kiribati, there needs to be a realization that giving food away in a given area is a guaranteed formula to destroy local farmers. And this just makes matters worse.