Hunger In Venezuela

The world continues to face a wide-scale food crisis. The effects of this crisis reach from the farmers who grow and raise the food to the very system of laws that are in place to govern the system itself. Food giants are reaching deep into their pockets for lobbying in order to take advantage of both the producers and the consumer all in the name of profit. Moreover, farmers are being driven to suicide, and the ecosystem’s livelihood is treading a fine line. Both Michael Pollan and Raj Patel bring to light these problems and offer suggestions to help lessen their severity. Though there are many philosophies on which they both agree, they both have their own ideas to fight back. Pollan seeks to challenge the consumer as an individual while

The livability in the country of Venezuela can be described, at best, as questionable, and at worst, catastrophic. Under a growing poverty rate and an increasingly tighter grip by an authoritarian government headed by President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s quality of life is far off the pace set by some of its western counterparts.

Many factors contribute to the food insecurity faced by many American’s today. Poverty seems to attribute to the hunger crisis more drastically than anything else. More specifically, unequal distribution of wealth is the principle cause of hunger. The world does in fact produce enough food to feed everyone, the issues is that income is not distributed is in such a way that everyone can afford or have access to food.

Eight thousand two hundred and forty-two F. The person currently living in Venezuela with this number can only get food on Fridays, if there is even any left. In 2013, Venezuela was voted the happiest country. Today it has the second highest murder rate in the world. How did such a promising country get this way? What pushed Venezuela to where it is now and how are the people affected? It was Hugo Chavez’s and Nicolás Maduro's power and decisions that led the nation to crisis and left the people and country broke, starving, or dead.

Venezuelans have been living with a shortage of food and essential items for nearly three years. Venezuela is rich in oil, but due to the drop in oil prices; It's management of available resources appear to have grown out of control. The storage of necessary items such as food, electricity and water has enraged and deepen the feeling of despair that many of the people of Venezuela experience each day.

Venezuela is currently in an economic crisis. There is a shortage of food, medical supplies, electricity, and more. Due to the disastrous state of the country, two large airlines, Lufthansa and LATAM, will be suspending service to Venezuela. Correspondingly, eighty-five percent of companies have halted production. Venezuela, a country that contains the world's largest known oil reserve suffers because oil prices have lost half its value, yet the government has not cut back from expensive spending. Resultantly, the government cannot pay for imports for basic items, such as milk, butter, eggs, and flour. A citizen of the country also stated his family has learned to live without bread while finding substitute. The severe shortages of food have

During the recent shortage of food in Venezuela, suffering Venezuelans broke into Caracos zoo, after dark, and butchered a black stallion for food. Previous to this occasion, Vietnamese pigs and sheep were also butchered to help alleviate the suffering caused from food scarcity. This food crisis has not only impacted humans, but it has also impacted animals as 50 animals have perished in the past 6 months, according to Marlene Sifontes, union leader for an agency that manages zoos (Alexander). Sifontes also says that Lions, Tigers, and Elephants have had to alter their diets in order to compensate for their reduced rations of food. Nicolas Maduro has served as president of Venezuela for the past three years and is currently suffering from

After President Hugo Chávez died, Nicolas Maduro took power of the socialist regime in Venezuela. Maduro’s government has faced one of the biggest economic, politic, and social crises Venezuela has had (Hernández 2016). This crisis has generated a massive food shortage that has affected the whole Venezuelan population. Many scholars have proposed different solutions on how to solve the shortage, but it seems that Maduro’s only intention is to generate political clientelism to his party instead of finding realistic programs to solve the shortage.

In many countries, people lie awake at night with empty stomachs due to hunger. Most of these countries are the poorest in the world. In order to stop hunger countries, like Honduras, organizations must work together. The U.S. Bureau of Food Security should partner with Feed the Future to help farmers grow crops and help the rural areas improve in Honduras.

The agricultural industry of the country is decreasing because the redistribution of wealth for means of production is being used for government benefits affecting the life of millions of citizens. The use of a capitalist, imperialist, socialist approach shows how governmental systems that only focus on maximizing profit can affect the entire life of a country.

The phenomenon of corruption in Venezuela is one of the evils that Venezuelan society has seen grow and involves the public and private. Currently, Venezuela is among the top ten most corrupt countries in the world. The purpose of this research paper is to discuss the struggles and issues that Venezuela is facing. My research topic is about governmental corruption in Venezuela and the impact it has on hunger. It’s important to discuss this matter because no one else is, it is important for people to be educated about the perversions of the Venezuelan government. The current situation in Venezuela is as bad as it gets for a country that is not at war. One issue that the country is facing is hunger. Food shortages in Venezuela hit families and

It can no longer be a strategy to support US farmers and the US agricultural industry, but must try be an attempt to help and empower the other. Donor and receipt food must be be in more balanced proportions when considering production. It is more empowering to assist recipient countries ability to produce for themselves instead of creating relationships of dependency. Doing this would be a truly ethical step for the United States. This step would also be a loss of power for the United States. In the international arena no state on its own gives up its power purely for the purpose of being ethical. This would be a major loss of power for the US as they are one of the largest administers of food aid programs in the world. Some standards must be set either by the US people or members of the global community. The US can no longer be allowed to push domestically produced food onto other countries and stamp the title of aid on their politically driven actions. Between 1995 and 2010, the US government paid nearly thirteen billion in subsidies to 70,000 US rice farmers. Riceland Foods alone, as US based company, received over five-hundred million in food subsidies. It was the leading recipient of all US farm payments, and a leading participant in rice imported to Haiti . Money, actions and policies, need to be adjusted within the US Farm Bill and its aid structure to ensure

Have you ever denied food because you weren't hunger or felt like not eating? Well 6.3 million children would trade places with in a heartbeat. Kids under 5 years old die everyday due to child hunger. Spain’s a wealthy, now stable country but still have issues with child hunger. I propose the spain’s government to help with this problem by saving money to provide food kids can’t afford that is healthy.

In light of this, I would like to explore research frontiers in the area of the challenges of managing food and farm businesses in a global setting of the 21st Century. In our society beleaguered by agricultural problems that ranges from economic to environmental problems such as weather and global warming, issues concerning trade and management of agricultural enterprises has been the topic of debate for the past decade. Many developing/poor countries who earn their living from agriculture continuously suffer from poverty and hunger as a result of the increasing pressures on the world's resource base. Policymakers are gripped with finding solutions to problems such as structural and technological constraints, inappropriate domestic policies and an unfavourable external economic environment. As a result, the growth of these economies has been slow, undernourishment has been increasing and the marginalization of these countries in the global economy has continued. This trend has created problems for developing countries over the past decade. Economic and financial

As these food shortages go on, one of the saddest ramifications of it is malnutrition in children. Children are starving to death as their parents look on, because they cannot afford food. And what is the government doing? Nothing! “President Nicolás Maduro has acknowledged that people are hungry in Venezuela, but he has refused to accept international aid” (Kohut & Herrera). That is not just. A leader should do what is right for his people, not what is good for his ego! Maduro’s country is starving, and he can’t fix it, yet he refuses help because he blames other countries for his problems.