Keeping World Hunger From Being Solved

World hunger is one of the many dire problems facing the human race. Although the common person probably won't have a big impact on ending world hunger, but by being aware of the issues you become empowered. It is first necessary discuss some other the myths about the reasons for world hunger. World hunger is not caused by population increase, but it is one of the factors. The global grain production is high enough to

World Hunger, what is it? Why is it a problem? And what can we do to fix it? Most United States citizens don’t know what it’s like to go hungry and without food. We are a very blessed country. We are so blessed and ungrateful that we manage to waste 165 billion dollars worth of food each year. The U.S. can’t even begin to imagine how they feel. According to the dictionary hunger is “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want of food”. There are people out there that can’t sleep at night because of that feeling. Starvation victims are too tired and weak to even know when they’re thirsty. They can’t even sense it. They become very dehydrated. Every time they move it starts to become painful because day by day their muscles are wasting away. Hunger, that feeling, none of us want to have to experience that. Truth is none of us should have to.

I went to Feed the Children for my community service which was a amazing experience because we learned a lot about how the company works and when they are most busy and what they do.

The start of world hunger started by colonialism and post-colonialism. When European countries decided to invade African colonies, they used these countries to develop only one product, such as bananas, and that invaded country forced trading deals that causes the African country to only trade with that one European country. Ultimately when the European country decided to leave the African country after WWII, it left these African countries with no infrastructure or any trade deals, this left them into despair causing the world hunger we see today. Countries such as the United States contributed to our modern world hunger with capitalism. Large corporations from United States use smaller countries by making them only develop one product and only making them sell it to that one corporation. These corporations also give minimal paychecks, these factors contribute to not developing a smaller countries’ infrastructure domestically, making them fall into food hunger. These two situations prove that the fortunate countries have caused smaller and less fortunate countries into food hunger, making it our obligation to help fix the problem, besides it being the virtuous thing to do. These unfortunate countries are provided clothing, food and things for the fortunate countries, while they are suffering from lack of

Although the world has a surplus amount of food produced on a daily, millions of people go hungry every day. Its a problem that the world has yet to solve as people of different countries go days and sometimes weeks without food. Farmers of the U.S. though have made an effort to feed more people. With the advancement in technology, farmers are equipped with better tools to help them produce their crops at high rate. Maybe the farmers are the answer to world hunger.

Over the course of many years, Hinman discovers that, “the World Bank had defined the absolute poverty level –the level at which people cannot meet basic needs such as food, water, shelter, and the like-at $1 per day income. On that basis, it was calculated that one billion people live in poverty. (Hinman, 364) ” Over one billion people including children are living with nothing that needs help more than ever. It is up to the wealthier nations such as the United States to take the acceptances of their moral responsibility and take it into action on the growing world hunger and poverty that is not only affecting our very own neighbors here in the United States but our neighbors around the world. As a nation, we need to come to together to fight against this particular moral issue of world hunger. I’ve conducted a research on world hunger and poverty from the point of view from the Catholic Church, how world hunger has evolved over time and expose the particular stance of world hunger and poverty. As of right now, we need to put aside our differences and start helping those in needs for a better chance in life for now and generations to come.

There are 805 million malnourished people in the world today. One in nine people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are in fact the number one health risk in the world. It is greater than AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis combined (Ackerman, 2002). World hunger is a serious problem battering the nation and surrounding nations. The USDA and United Nations are confronted with this issue. Kids are crying out in pain, as there is not enough food to be fed. Someone had to stop this hunger and find a way to solve this problem. Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture, decided to step in. He developed a plan to increase the size of farmers and the production of crops. However, the plan did not thoroughly worked. GMOs are the only way to feed the entire world. With the advancements of GMOs people are able to morally provide food for the world.

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

“792.5 million people in the world don’t get the food they need to live a healthy life.” (2016 FAO Stats) “66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world.” (World Food Programme) “Asia has the largest number of hungry people, with two-thirds of the population affected.”(FAO) (qtd. in World Hunger).

There are 805 million malnourished people in the world today. One in nine people don’t get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life. Hunger and malnutrition are, in fact, the number one health risk in the world. It is greater than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined (Ackerman, 2002). World hunger is a serious problem battering our nation and surrounding nations. The USDA and United Nations are confronted with this issue. Kids are crying out in pain, as there is never enough food to feed them. Someone needed to stop this hunger and find a way to solve this problem. Earl Butz, the secretary of agriculture, decided to step in. He developed a plan to increase the size of farmers and the production of crops. Although the plan never thoroughly worked, it is the only way we will ever be able to feed the world. With the advancements of GMOs, we are able to morally provide food for the world.

Currently, 1 billion people suffer from hunger, yet, about 1.5 billion adults are overweight. Currently, the quantity of food produced globally is more than enough to feed the global population, however, the increased food prices, uneven distribution of food around the globe, and the quality of food production practices correlates with the threatening factors that catalyze human induced climate change. Not to mention the population is expected to rise to 9 billion by 2050 which will augment the demand for food production. Solving the issue of world hunger is a complex algorithm involving economic, psychological, and environmental factors.

While many factors play into world hunger the most common are poverty, environmental overloads, discrimination, armed conflict, lack of clout, and chronic hunger, there are many effects of these factors. Some include increasing deaths, limited access to food supply which leads to malnutrition, and the amount of food waste. All of this can be reversed by using what they need and not buying things and letting it go to waste. Political power also plays a role in world hunger because of developing countries where some food is not easily accessed. In some places environmental overloads cause food growth to decrease. The amount of deaths is alarmingly increasing and world hunger deaths do not only limit to starvation though they go beyond to diseases easy contracted from having low immunity due to hunger. Overall, world hunger has a huge impact on what goes on in the world to and not only limited to these causes. World hunger is a huge problem all around the world and should have more awareness because it affects many people by having a lack of access to food and creates the problem of malnutrition and causes many deaths by starvation.

Hunger, in short, is a crisis that is marked by the inability to meet basic nutritional needs. The lack of nutrition brought by hunger leads to cognitive problems, bodily problems and ultimately death. While hunger is commonly correlated with third world countries such as Haiti, it is a global crisis experienced by every region in some form. The devastation of hunger is unmissable, claiming “the lives of 20,000 children a day” (Gitlin 1252). Additionally, with a population experiencing exponential growth, “the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years” (Godfray, H. C. J., et al 812). Ironically, the majority of people facing hunger are farmers and pastoralists living in marginal lands within Africa and Asia, “where

Analyzing world hunger in its entirety presents numerous ramifications juxtaposed to several elements that includes but is not limited to undernourishment, famine, poverty, drought, war, starvation, extreme diseases amongst

World hunger will be one of the most serious problems that the humanity will be facing if we will continue to ignore it. Basically, when there is lack of production in food it will result to starvation and famine if it gets worst. There are many things that can contribute with the aggravation of world hunger.