The phrase "ability to feed a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity or skill to provide sustenance or nourishment, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The farmer's ability to feed a growing population is crucial for food security."
Alternatives: "capacity to nourish a" or "skill to provide for a".
(Reuters) INTERNATIONAL HARMFUL FARMING Intensive farming, blamed by many for spreading mad cow disease across Europe, has damaged the environment and may cripple the world's ability to feed a growing population, a food policy research group said.
Since breastfeeding, seeing how our society (myself included) still manages to be so awkward about the ability to feed a suckling child and at times add a lot to a sex life, I have reread Camus.
Noting that sustainable growth in the APEC region also requires the ability to feed a growing and increasingly prosperous population, Leaders call for accelerated implementation of the APEC Food System initiative.
Desertification is low on many countries' radar – illustrated by Canada's recent withdrawal from the UNCCD – but its links to climate change and food security are starting to resonate with governments and business, particularly given fears over the world's ability to feed a soaring population.
Projections of future changes to the planet's climate and its impact on the agriculture sector's ability to feed a rising global population has made the issue a priority for scientists.
The insignia and speech of a soldier is a sign of manhood, one that can replace ability to feed a family or subsist independently. .
The ability to feed all its people is a desire that every country's leadership envisions as a major legacy.
What hadn't changed was his ability to feed on a crowd and send their energy flying back at them a thousandfold.
Abandoning the ability to feed as an adult is therefore a significant evolutionary change.
To do so, it needs strength, but also supreme adaptability: its caterpillar's ability to feed on a wide variety of foodplants has made it the world's most cosmopolitan butterfly.
With his elastic power, sprinter's speed and ability to feed off a home crowd, Gaël Monfils was clearly one of the young men to be avoided at this French Open.
