Poverty And Its Effects On Human Development

The topic is poverty. Por very is affecting child development and educational outcomes. It is a problem because children are. Suffering mental and behavior consequences.children are affected because they are likely to commit crime because of the way they are living. Also, they suffer from mental and physical problems and that is experience hunger. They can experience the lack of education.

Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However poverty is more than not just having money. In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; Not being able to send children on a day trip with classmates or to a birthday party, and not being able to pay for medications in times of illness. The poorest people will also have less access to health, education and other vital services. Problems of hunger, malnutrition and disease afflict the poorest in society. The poorest are also typically marginalized from society and have little representation or voice in public and political debates, making it even harder to escape poverty. Poverty is a direct threat to society and equal rights in America.

“Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide. Each year the death toll exceeds that of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.” There are around 800 million people in the world deprived from proper nourishment and statistic say it’s possible to feed everyone, but is it really? There are many different causes of hunger, such as: poverty, wealth inequalities, natural disasters, war, and food/ resource waste. Although there are many causes of hunger, thankfully there are some solutions that could be quite effective. These include: education, transfer of wealth, empowering women, international support, and technology. Despite the fact there are many solutions the crucial step in ending world hunger is implanting them into society successfully.

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

An issue that affects children in urban areas is poverty. Children who live in poverty are impacted with many negative effects physically or mentally. Some of these issues related to poverty are substandard housing, inadequate nutrition and food insecurity, inadequate child care, lack of access to health care, unsafe neighborhoods, and under resourced schools. Studies show that “poverty affects child development and they experience more social problems” (Curley).

Poverty causes most stress within households and has an impact on the healthy development of a child.

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

All around the world, many countries are suffering from poverty and hunger. This problem can be caused by harmful economic systems, environmental factors, and past leadership.

Childhood and adolescence are expected to be the times of great functioning and physical health, yet poverty provokes this from occurring and children face poor health. Children living in poverty are at immense risk for their development, health and overall well-being. According to Komro, 2011, the absolute rate of poverty among children is higher in the United States than in other industrialized nations. Nationally, One in five children are living in poverty (Raphel, 2014). Malnourishment is one of the numerous outcomes from poverty; children are suffering each day in America with this threat to their health. Malnourishment is a result of either not having sufficient nutrients in their diet or having it excessively that it causes health problems.

Because of social instability caused by domestic or transnational war, people are driven out of their land, which leads to abandoned lands that can no longer be cultivated even when the conflict is over. Inefficient usage of resources, including land and water, is an essential cause of hunger in less developed areas. Without a stable social environment for farmers to live safely on their land, the function of financial or technological aid offered by international organizations will not be brought into play.

Poverty can be classified as one of the major threat to the wellbeing of families and it often affect child’s personal, social development and causes inequalities in their educational attainment (Scottish Govt. 2010). Bradley and Corwyn (2002) highlights that poverty is one the major factors that affect child development, which often impact on the psychosocial and the physical health of a child as well as their cognitive outcomes. In view of ecological theory, human beings are linked to relate within the surroundings they live in. This essay will discuss briefly the systems in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory of human development. It will explore poverty and how ecological theory underpinned the significant influence of poverty on social class, parental capacity and on child development.

Poverty is one of largest problem in the whole world, because thousands of people are affected by this major concern. Poverty is an issue that inflicts many dangerous situations, such as, crimes, diseases, lack of literacy, hard labor, etc., and therefore, it is essential to resolute before it gets worse. For example, United States is having risen in unemployment rates, which indicates the early symptoms, that citizens have started submerging into poverty. In most of the poor countries crime ratio is much higher than that of the rich countries. The rich countries are also not exempt from this general rule. The poor areas in a rich country witness more crimes than the posh areas of the same country. Same applies to the most devastating and threatening phenomena of epidemic diseases. Uncleanliness and inhabitation both have nourished in the inflicting more diseases in poor countries of the world, for example, Sudan has highest number of people infected from deadly diseases, such malaria, tuberculosis, and Ebola. Within my article, I learned that the basic cause for poverty is unjust distribution of wealth and other human needs. On the other side, through my article, I also observed that there organization that exists, which intends to help control the poverty, initiated procedure to improve the economic and social background. Poverty is an issue which has to be controlled, and thus, my research paper on poverty in Sudan will provide a glimpse of the leading causes of poverty

Hunger is a large concern in our country every day. “About 15.8 million children lived in food-insecure households in 2012. (Feeding America, 2014)” Hunger can affect children’s physical, cognitive and social-emotional development. To grow and develop physically, good nutrition is extremely important. Without the appropriate intake of vitamins and minerals, the children won’t reach developmental milestones. “Hungry children suffer from two to four times as many individual health problems, such as unwanted weight loss, fatigue, headaches, irritability, inability to concentrate and frequent colds, as low-income children whose families do not experience food shortages. (Second Harvest)” A child could be shorter than they should be and be extremely underweight. Many children develop diseases because their immune systems aren’t able to fight off common diseases and bugs. Children who suffer from hunger have poor health overall. Children’s cognitive development can suffer from hunger. They can develop learning disabilities and they are more likely to struggle academically. “Many kids will have trouble focusing in an academic setting due to a lack of energy and motivation. (Agnew, 2014)” It will be hard for the children to concentrate and many would miss classes due to

Education is a very powerful weapon, one that isn’t available to many however if it were, we could solve many issues within the world. The biggest and most fundamental problem which can be seen globally is, world hunger.The sad reality is that this is an issue and one that not many are talking about. In his article Frederic Seebohm proclaims that the world bank estimates “that there are now one billion absolute poor in the world” (Seebohm 5). He continues to define “absolute poor” as “those whose condition of life is so degraded by disease, illiteracy, malnutrition and squalor as to deny its victims basic human necessities” (4). The fact that there are so many hungry people in the world today is mind-boggling when you think about it. We are well into the 21st century. We now have the ability to communicate instantaneously with people all over the world. The collected knowledge of humanity, is literally at our fingertips via smartphones in our hands. Now some may assume that world hunger is still a grave issue simply because there is not enough food to feed everyone. However recently scientists who have studied world hunger, have found that the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone on the planet.The main cause of worldwide hunger is poverty. As R. C. Pickett mentions the “ the world has at present 1.5 billion hectares of arable land that remains uncultivated”(31). The problem isn’t that there isn’t enough land, the issue remains with the coordination of food production. Millions of people around the world are simply too poor to buy food. They also lack the monetary resources to grow their own food, such as the means to harvest, process, and store food.The interaction of domestic animals within the cropping systems needs to be intensively revaluated. A solution that Pickett suggests includes “governments and businesses interacting to provide a favorable price and availability structure of the necessary inputs for adequate production, and to supply needed economical processing, storage, transport, and utilization systems” (32). His solution is to aim more government intervention as he believes that much more food could be produced at least in certain areas but is not, simply because there is no

Target 2.a focuses on the importance of investing in agriculture in terms of rural infrastructure, agricultural research and technology (including gene banks) to increase agricultural productivity capacity, especially in least developed countries. This target is