Hunger In Sub-Saharan Africa

The article which I chose to summarize is “Clean Your Plate. There are People in Starving in Africa!”, written by Timothy W. Jones. This article addresses the excessive wastefulness of food and resources in the United States. I particularly agree with how the author describes, not only the amount of food that is thrown out, but also the amount of money that it translates to. I would recommend this article to businesses, in particular, as it could be an eye-opener. The author examines three different perspectives of wastefulness: Food loss in general, losses as they relate to the farming industry and the wastefulness of food in the retail food industry. The author’s purpose of this article is not only to highlight the fiscal irresponsibility

Global hunger, as its name suggests, is a global issue that requires the assistance and cooperation of countries, regardless of nationality, wealth or religion, so as to find an effective solution. Many policies and efforts, both international and national, have been done, or presently underway to reduce poverty, which causes hunger. The good cause behind these efforts cannot be denied, however, one may doubt if the money pumped into them are potent enough to rapidly decrease the rate of hunger in a short period of time. These efforts have made improvements to alleviate global hunger but more have to be done by the global community via sustainable and long

When you watch commercials depicting starvation in African countries like Mali, do you wonder what it would actually take to end hunger? Plenty of answers appear successful in concept, but have unforeseen complications, such as building factories in Africa to produce and process biofuels. And other obstacles such as civil wars, poor sanitation, and massive debt keep countries like Democratic Republic of the Congo from advancing. Maybe we complicate the solution to the hunger crisis by focusing on economy instead of food sustainability. Before a country can advance economically and technologically, it has to be able to feed its inhabitants. Therefore, by altering the crops currently grown in the African savannas to create agricultural sustainability, it will diminish hunger, and lead to economic growth.

“More than 90% of world population growth occurs in developing nations that are least able to feed their people,” writes W. Fornos in the article, Population Politics (Fornos). Throughout the world, approximately two billion people are left without safe and nutritious food that is necessary for their health. Africa is one nation that will not be able to feed its expected population. In 2050, it is estimated that Africa’s population will reach two billion, and in order to feed this population, food production in Africa would have to increase by 300%(Population). Who else is hungry?

Thousands of people all over the world are hungry every single day. It is selfish to eat surplus amounts of food and waste even more when some people do not even have clean water to drink. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, the definition of hunger is “A weakened condition brought about by prolonged lack of food” (Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, n.d.). That is exactly it. Food and water are two basic requirements that humans need to survive, and deficiency of these can cause serious health problems. Hunger is a global problem that needs to be fixed. The majority of people who suffer from hunger are located in Africa, and a large number of these people are in the Central African Republic (World Hunger, 2016).

Africa was identified as the world's poorest inhabited continent. We waste over 30 million pounds of food a year. That food that we waste can go to African. To help people in need of food. This year, nearly 9 million children younger than five years old will die needlessly, more than half from hunger-related causes. Chronic hunger affects more than 925 million people in the world and is, in and of itself, a potentially deadly condition. Poor people do not have the resources—whether land, tools or money—needed to grow or buy food on a consistent basis. People in African starve each day. Not every poor person is hungry, but almost all hungry people are poor. More and more kids die each day of thirst and starvation. Millions live with hunger and malnourishment because they simply cannot afford to buy enough food, cannot afford nutritious foods or cannot afford the farming supplies they need to grow enough good food of their own.

In the text “Why Does Hunger Still Exist in Africa?” Gates (2014) talked about Proper nutrition while in “Technology is Key to Ending Hunger”(2011) it talked about technology, as both methods reduce malnutrition and famine, and they have many differences and one similarity. For starting a healthy life, having a right amount of nutrition in the first 1000 days and breastfeeding in the first 6 months can lead to maintaining a proper nutrition for babies. While investing in dams and water pans and delivering water to all corners of the country is done by having access to technology. Although, technology can use modern irrigation systems and desalination in agriculture. Fortifying essential foods like oil, flour, salt with crucial vitamins, minerals

American citizens sit at the dinner table over consuming while just a few thousand miles away, children younger than five are dying of starvation and malnutrition. With social conflict, gender inequality, and horrible diseases, men and women of all ages in Africa are suffering from starvation and deadly malnutrition. With such abhorrent events happening it can all come to an end if all nations contribute and maintain a committed effort to stop starvation and malnutrition in developing countries.

In 2004, ninety-two percent of deaths linked to hunger were due to persistent starvation (Barrett 827). Food proves to be a vital part of daily life; when people do not consume enough food, they cannot survive.

There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, but there are many who do not have access to the food they need because of their lack of resources to buy it

Hunger and malnutrition is a threat to livelihoods of many people around the world. They are currently suffering from not having enough food to feed their children and themselves.

One of the economic poverty topics we have discussed in class is Global Hunger and Food Insecurity. Hunger is the condition where one cannot eat enough food for a long time to meet basic nutritional needs. Poverty is almost identical to hunger, and both are the major causes of poor health. World Bank has estimated that there were one billion poor people in developing countries who live on $1.25 a day or less in 2005 (Deaton, 2015). The relationship between poverty and hunger is economic: the poor cannot afford what they need for health, including a sufficient quantity of good food. However, this relationship is also linked to other factors of poverty, such as the lack of proper health promotion and education and the poor’s use of their income to purchase luxury goods instead of nutritious food.

Politically speaking, nationally the government can run programmes that support poor households in urban and rural areas to grow some food even though not all needs will be met. However, national governments can play a role to avert food insecurity and general instability associated with rising food costs. They are not entirely powerless. Income and food are inter-related. When people are unemployed and dependent on irregular sources of income, food inflation hurts the most. In addition, when ordinary people hurt and have no recourse to escape the ravages of food inflation, they will take to the streets. However, income in itself does not guarantee that one eats properly either. The consequence of having no income or low-income growth is that the poor either starve and are under-nourished or just fill themselves with things that lead to long-term poor health. The high unemployment and poverty rate in South Africa has already lead to

About 2 billion of the global population of over 7 billion are food insecure because they fall short of one or several of Food and Agriculture Organization’s dimensions of food security. Enormous geographic differences in the prevalence of hunger exist worldwide.

In a world overflowing with riches, it is an outrageous scandal that more than 826 million people suffer hunger and malnutrition and that every year over 36 million die of starvation and related causes. We must take urgent action now.”