Famine: Trop Failure, Climate Change, Drought, And Conflict

While the birthrate increases approximately one percent every year, the death rate increases too. Some of these deaths are caused by poverty, job instability, food shortages and waste, poor infrastructure, unstable markets, climate change, war and conflict, nutritional quality, and discrimination. However, the United Nation says that around twenty-one thousand people die every day due to hunger or hunger related causes, the food just does not get to all the people around the world. Starvation is an old problem that has been around ever since the sixth century and possibly earlier. Right now, there are currently eight hundred seventy million people in the world who do not have enough to eat or drink, and this number is growing. Population growth is out of control in many developing areas, such as Africa and India. More and more children are being born each year, but with less and less food to feed them.

Hunger is caused by many things and shockingly a food shortage is not one of them. Most people who face hunger are in that situation because of poverty. Poverty is the lack of money to buy what is necessary. The number one cause of poverty is job instability. Without jobs people have no way to make money to provide for their families and one of the things some people cut back on in their budget is food. Sometimes

People in Africa suffer from famine issues for thousands of years since it’s a 3rd world country. With the lack of food many people have died of starvation. And with no medicine in Africa people die at a young age. This has impacted them in a negative way because

Have you ever skipped a meal and realized how hungry you were? Now imagine skipping all your meals, imagine not having the option to get food and worst of all, imagine watching a loved family member die of hunger. This is what hundreds of thousands of Somalians went through during the famine. Half of the killed were children under the age of five, this being said this was one of the worst famines in the last 28 years. Tens of thousands of Somalians fled their homes in search of food. The main part of the famine took place in 2011 when an extreme drought affected more than thirteen million people across the horn of Africa. In result of this drought, prices for food skyrocketed; parents watched helplessly as their family members died one by one. Political instability made the chances of the famine getting better as quick as

He asserts that “our distance from a preventable evil [does not lessen] our obligation to mitigate or prevent that evil” (Singer 521).

If you look around, your family, school, and your life is created by economics. Economics is something that is always in the back of peoples brains; in reality it is important, economics dictates our lives. Socialism is one of these forms of economics. Throughout history Socialism has shown that it is matter in fact a theory instead of a fully functioning economic system. For instance If you look back into the history books Socialist countries have only shown atrocities against its citizens , for example Hitler was apart of the National Socialist German Workers ' Party and was the creator of many problems during World War Two, another after the Russian Civil war and the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics it resulted in

A famine that has taken place in the last 100 years is the Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961. In just three years between 16.5 and 45 million people perished. At the time of the famine, the Chinese government had full control of all food production, consumption and distribution. The government also prevented peasants from migrating so they were stuck with the amount of food they were allocated. Causes of the famine were bad weather, poor government policies, and weekend worker incentives. One of the faults in government participation in the famine was that in 1959 they obtained more grain than need from the rural areas. So when famine struck they had less food to live off of than expected. Also, the government didn’t help them out until the

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

War plays a major role in hunger. The land and resources are destroyed by the fighting and violence. The enemies destroy the fields with fire, driving over the crops or spraying chemicals on the crops that make them inedible. Pollution in the air, water and dirt also make it difficult to grow healthy foods.

Drought and famine can make it hard to grow produce and cater livestock, which in turn results in no income, as the selling of produce and live stock is what provides a source of income.

Parts of the country are on the brink of famine, and the number of people displaced

The Ethiopia and Bengal leaders both neglected to recognize that drought was a factor in their famines. Instead, the amount of food and where is was transported too was monitored by the government which result in a variety of problems. In Ethiopia, the government composed prices on its food. This resulted in the rich only being able to buy the food, leaving the poor to starve, creating a famine. In Bengal, food produced there would stay there and be distributed only within itself.

This leaves thousands without fresh water, food, hous-ing and safety, all of which are characteristics of absolute poverty. This not only affects them short-term but leaves them with long-term development issues, as there is less fertile land for agricultural growth. Therefore exports of the natural resources such as timber would be low, low food production maintaining the famine. It leaves the country reliant on interna-tional aid, making them complacent to develop and grow economically (Maathai: 2009). Also the state changes hands and has to adapt again, with deep problematic group histories, earlier violence and economic underdevelopment it is theoretically likely for conflict to break out once more (Collier and Hoeffler: 2002; Jackson: 2002). This creates a never-ending cycle of violence which is destructive for the economy and sustainable

Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long periods of drought also cause food scarcity in Guinea.

Thanks Charlotte. Extreme rain loss in areas all over the world causes intense droughts. Multiple complications occur when water is no longer abundant. One of the most severe conflicts caused by this terrible drought is famine. Famine, described as an extreme scarcity of food, affects over 6.2 million people in Somalia alone. “We are still trying to work out how we ended up here, what we missed, what we did wrong”, announced UNICEF senior nutrition manager Peter Harris. (“A Famine We Made”, researchIT CT) Additionally, if not helped, it is said that over 100,000 Somalis will die in the next few weeks. Little aid is being received in this region,