Causes Of Hunger

Environmental factors are a factor that affect living and nonliving organisms and have participated in Ethiopia’s problem in food deficiency and food insecurity. A large environmental factor that can affect food deficiency and food insecurity is natural hazards and disasters. These can include droughts and floods which can upset agricultural production. For example, grain production and stocks are very low and droughts have hit harvests in grain-producing areas around the world. A more specific example for Ethiopia is that because of Ethiopia’s seasonal rainfall from mid-June to mid-September, soil erosion and

The causes of world hunger are at once intimidatingly complex and stunningly simple, depending on the underlying ideological assumptions which inform one's approach to the problem. For the uninformed, the cause of world hunger might seem to be quite obvious, because the concept of hunger is ostensibly simple; being hungry means a lack of food, so world hunger must be caused either by a lack of food on a global scale or overpopulation. Put another way, the easy answer to the question of world hunger is to suggest that there is either too little food or too many people, but in reality, neither of these scenarios prove to be the case. Instead, research has shown that human beings produce more than enough food for the global population, and that world hunger stems not from a lack of food overall, but rather an inequitable distribution of wealth, which precludes certain populations from being able to purchase the food they need, or else prompts localized overpopulation due to insufficient family planning and local resources. Thus, poverty is ultimately the cause of world hunger, but to understand why one must investigate the nexus between capitalism, poverty, global trade, and world hunger, because far from being the product of hard limits regarding the amount of food or size of the population, world hunger is almost entirely the result of social forces which have conspired together to impoverish and starve millions for the sake of a privileged few.

Richard Robbins explores and analyzes the creation and the upkeep of hunger in his book “Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Each day, over a billion people in the world lack basic food needs. Common misunderstandings about world hunger are that it is the result of insufficient food production, famine is the common reason for hunger and that hunger is caused by overpopulation. Robbins argues against that theory and says that famines is not the leading cause of hunger and hunger is not due to overpopulation or insufficient food production. “Food production is not determined by the global need for food; it is determined on how many people have the means for it” (page 176). The documentary “The End of Poverty” reinforces Robbins belief that food is a commodity.

Hunger is a problem and crisis found worldwide. Hunger does not just affect one specific race or group of people but a variety of people throughout the world. People don’t expect to go hungry and one can never predict if this will be a problem for them. Going hungry can happen to anyone and at the time least expected. Have you ever wondered what it is like to not know when your next meal will be? What about not knowing how to provide enough food to feed your family? Not everyone thinks of these questions, as some are oblivious to these ongoing problems related to hunger.

Today all over the world,there are people who haven’t eaten in days,weeks,and maybe even months.Many food organizations are working to fix it,but the countless number of Africans who live homeless.”In 2012, 501 million people, or 47% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, lived on $1.90 a day or less, a principal factor in causing widespread hunger.” World hunger has been a problem for a long time now. I feel it can be stopped by donations farming and many more food related things.

A problem that is keeping world hunger from being solved is the issue is most prominent. Third world countries are the most problematic areas for hunger and malnutrition because they often have the most political issues, and these countries do not have any backup money source or food source when a natural disaster happens. Mowbray believes the economic system we live in now creates more of a gap between the developed countries and the third world countries (556). This gap makes it harder for the third world countries to buy food when they have a natural disaster such as a flood or a drought, which causes the country not to be able to produce the food that is needed for the people to survive. Nah and Chau agree with this and believe the third world countries are in a bad spot because whenever they have a drought or flood, or they have political unrest they are not able to provide for their country. This leads to their infrastructure falling apart, food interruptions, and an increase in the refugees that must leave their country (545). Another problem with the political unrest is if it causes a civil war. The civil wars can last several years, which is very hard for a country to come back from and usually leads to the country needing even more help than it did in the beginning.

Almost all the hungry people, 780 million, live in developing countries, representing 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of the population of developing counties. There are 11 million people undernourished in developed countries. With anticipated impact of global warming and increase in natural disasters such as drought and flooding, food shortages in parts of the world (especially in Asia and Africa) can only increase in scale and severity in view of growing population and poverty indexes.

Junior Thesis: Effects of Overpopulation and How to Solve It Society includes both good and bad elements that make society better or worse. People in society all hates problems that occur in the society. Sadly, there are many problems the society may face today and people in the society may realize these problems too. The terrible conflicts in the society can lead to destruction to the economic and social life.

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

Don’t be surprised if leaders who are expected to act on this project do not move as swiftly as anticipated. However, action is required and must be taken by the countries that are most in need. The citizens need to take action to deal with the root causes of hunger and to correct them. We all must focus on a solution.

highlighted in the case of Sierra Leone, leaving countries in mass poverty. During the Soma-lian civil war Africa Watch (in Adams: 1999: 177) estimated approximately 50,000 to 60,000 people were killed just by government forces. Over 400,000 were displaced from their homes leaving them either fleeing the country or living in the countryside of Somalia with no help, shelter or food. Homelessness, hunger and job insecurity were all characteris-tics laid out in the definition of overall poverty by the UN defined near the beginning of the essay, and caused by civil war. A further example to show how conflict causes poverty is one of war movement between Siyaad Barre and his forces and the clans within Majarteen in Somalia. Throughout the violence between these two forces water reserves were destroyed leaving citizens without fresh drinking water. Furthermore, farming and livestock were hit hard and caused massive agriculture development issues for Somalia. In one case clan fighting over

The first approach in ending food insecurity is to increase the amount of food produced throughout the world. In an article on causes and prevention of food insecurity from Technology Times, Muhammad Zain et al. suggest that extra maize, rice, sugarcane, and wheat crops should be grown to provide food for a large population. However, the number of men, women, boys, and girls that are deprived of food at this point cannot benefit from enlarging the food production. While this is a considerable idea and can reduce the number of hungry people, the solution is long-term.

Today, the economic state of our world is highly connected and international. The global market influences food accessibility and hunger on an exceedingly large scale. The global food economy exists within a complex system that has widespread dire consequences if it finds itself in a crisis like we are currently seeing. Until the year 2000, the world witnessed a thirty year trend of decreasing food prices. While it is common perception that the global food crisis is occurring due to shortages in supply and increasing demand, nearly a billion people are now malnourished or starving due to financial speculation and a legacy of events put into motion by the industrialized world. The high price of food has the largest impact on global hunger

The common perception about hunger and poverty is that it is a miniscule problem that impacts only a few smaller, underdeveloped countries. However, that is not the case, because “of the world’s current population of 6.8 billion, 5 billion are living at levels of poverty that deprive them of their basic needs, and more than 1 billion are going hungry” (Powledge 1). This statistic shows that lack of awareness is one of the primary problems preventing help to the those who are less fortunate. Another problem preventing the elimination of hunger and poverty is governments unwilling to fully dedicate themselves to solving the problem. While “more than 100 nations legally recognize the right to food. The United States does not” (Devine 179) showing that even developed countries have come up short in attempting to fix this problem. Due to this “Fourteen percent of United States households are food insecure…” (Devine 178). Although Poverty and world hunger has always plagued the less fortunate across the world, I argue that through spreading awareness and making this a priority for world leaders this can become a problem of the past.

There are many reasons that may contribute to the cause of world hunger. Historically, the society will continue to change as long as there are people in the world. For what I know, the world had vastly changed from 60 years ago up to now. Whenever I’m with my grandmother, she always told me stories on how accessible and cheap it is to have food in the Philippines during her teenage life. They used to have a small pond where there are tilapia and various crops, vegetables and fruits in their backyard. This scenery was common in each household even