Tip for new players: You will soon realize you dont produce food to be stable enough with population, this is normal. After most of your people die you now are able to have MORE money to buy MORE farms faster, thus increasing threshold of how many farms you can have.
i fired frank cus he didnt sell enough and it said he had 7 kids to feed so i kept him and clicked him again and it said i got 4 kids to feed how did he lose 3 kids in a few seconds???