Problems Associated With Food Shortages

More than 1 billion people in the world right now are suffering from hunger. Food security is “the access by all people at all times to the food needed for a healthy life,” as defined by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. There are four points to food security, which are “availability, access, utilization, and stability.” When one or even all these points are missing, it is described as food insecurity. The rise of food prices in 2008 shocked and affected millions of people, many of whom were very poor. Because of the rise of food prices, there were protests and hunger was put at the top of the list, although it did not stay there. Science has to understand how to deal with hunger as the problem grows. Using scientific research and changing policies can have a huge impact on the issue of hunger. Population is

While there are plenty of infants being born every single day, do you ever wonder how the world will continue to sustain the growing population? The population of the world is continuing to grow at a dangerously, increasing rate. There are already at least 6.5 billion people on Earth. According to, Overpopulation ‘is main threat to planet’,

Even though payments from Social Security and Supplemental Security Income have played a critical part in an attempt to increase economic security among older adults, poverty still remains on the rise for this population. Many still live on limited incomes and have the modest savings. In 2013, 50% of people in Medicare possessed incomes of less than $23,000 which corresponds to 200% of poverty in 2015 (Cubanski et. al, 2015). Today, over 25 million people ages 60 or more are economically insecure living at or below 250% of the federal poverty level (FPL) (National Council on Aging, 2016). As a result, these individuals struggle with increasing housing and health care bills, lack of nutrition, inadequate access to transportation, and job

Hunger stalks America and many other countries. How the world deals with hunger is dependent on cultural attitudes and the understanding of what hunger means to the individual and communities. In the United States, the majority of hungry people are the elderly, children, and the disabled which represent a bloc of people unable to provide for themselves with employment. The understanding that governmental systems and institutions responsible for food insecurity are failing, is becoming mainstream in the population, not the previous idea that agriculture does not produce enough food. How to provide physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to meet dietary needs and food preferences for healthy lives is a problem of political and economic exclusion, social injustice and discrimination (Cunningham 2017, Lecture 1). The right to food security should be an uncompromised right of humanity, no matter the cost to government or agriculture.

In Exploring Social Change, Harper tells us about his father’s upbringing on their family farm. Harper father had a limited amount of food that was available to him, especially fresh fruits in the winter months. At this time in society, families growing food on their farm to sell and eat, but Harper grandparents’ farm was just able to grow enough food for their family to live off. This occurred in the early 1900s and although Harper’s family had limited amount of food, they still didn’t have hunger issues. It’s ridiculously that in the United States today that citizens are having food insecurity problems. There are many states ranging from Arizona to Michigan with hunger issues. In, this paper I am going to give a brief detail

Today all over the world,there are people who haven’t eaten in days,weeks,and maybe even months.Many food organizations are working to fix it,but the countless number of Africans who live homeless.”In 2012, 501 million people, or 47% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, lived on $1.90 a day or less, a principal factor in causing widespread hunger.” World hunger has been a problem for a long time now. I feel it can be stopped by donations farming and many more food related things.

When analyzing a certain population with concerns, an individual must consider all factors that lead to a certain outcome. Having an adequate diet and being able to access food is important for development and healthy living (Morin, 2014). Morin (2014) states that food insecurity and security are defined when analyzing the context of a household in terms of a scale. Food security is placed at the high end or near the high end of the scale where there is an ease of accessibility to safe and nutritious foods, no anxiety related to accessing food, healthy eating patterns and being able to attain food without utilizing food banks, stealing or foraging through garbage. In contrast, food insecurity is at the other end of the scale in which food security is low or very low (Morin, 2014). Food insecurity is defined as having a limitation or uncertain availability of food that is nutritional and safe to consume or having a limitation or uncertain way of acquiring food that is acceptable by society (Schroeder & Smaldone, 2015). Assessment in a low-income population group reveals that the issue of food insecurity is one that is most prominent (Brown, Noonan & Nord, 2007). This research shows that food insecurity has a direct relationship with poverty, socio-economic status and low income. Although the issue of food insecurity is global, the focus of this analysis will be on the low-income population in developed countries.

There are at least two billion people are hungry or malnourished and the Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that food production will need to increase by 70% (FAO Report, 2009) to keep up with the demands of a growing population. Overconsumption also contributes to the widening gap. In fact, if every person consumed resources at a US level, four to five more earths would be needed!

Food security is to have availability to food, whether it be for basic nutritional needs, special dietary needs, for example, lactose-free, or personal preferences. For a household to be considered food secure, the tenants must not be living in hunger.  In recent years land degradation, climate change, global water crisis, and greedy land deals, are the main causes of food insecurity.  From a global report in 2006, there are more overweight people (over one billion) than undernourished people (an estimated 800 million).  There are up to 2 billion people in the world, that have a shortage of food security due to several levels of poverty.  The population increases and people desire new and different foods, even though there is already enough, however, this cannot happen because the requirements needed to do this are not available. This leads to challenges in the world, such as accommodating the growing population with food at all times.

All over the world, the human population fluctuates throughout each country due to several different factors. Some of the factors that can lead to an increase or decrease in population include industrialization, economic instability, poverty, laws, disease, resource destruction, sanitation, natural disasters, birth control, and access to education (Class notes). Although population decline is possible and relevant in some countries, the more important issue facing many countries today is overpopulation. Some over population problems include decreases in food sources, housing needs, land, increase in distribution problems, decrease in job availability, and poor health care environment (HowMany.org, 2014). One important question related to controlling

Hunger is one of the long-lasting international problems that have attracted continuous attention from both scholars and decision makers. Indeed, the history of humanity is “essentially a story of peoples’ attempts to feed themselves.” Unlike climate change, hunger is not a recent problem that people have not dealt with before. Valuable experience is learned from countries that have successfully overcome hunger, or at least those which have reduced the number of hungry people dramatically. As G. Edward Schuh suggests, we know how to solve the world’s food problem and thus to feed a substantially larger global population than we now

Currently we produce enough food supply to adequately distribute enough food to feed the world’s population (approximately 7.3 billion people). Unfortunately, food is not evenly distributed, one in seven people in the world do not have enough food to lead an active and healthy life, yet over a billion people are overweight. By the year 2050 the world’s population is estimated that to reach 9.7 billion people. That is an extra 2.4 billion mouths to feed.

Did you know that 1 in 9 people in the world doesn't have food security? That means about 795 million struggling people in this world; families, elderly, and young adolescents without proper meals.

However, in the developing world, food security is often low, because large numbers of people experience dire poverty. Food may be available, but that is irrelevant to those who lack the resources to buy it. This is a major problem in many countries that export food to richer nations. This illustrates the global inequity in food production and distribution that has been difficult to solve or alleviate, despite intense efforts in the latter half of the 20

“When we have the first serious crop failure, which will happen,” says farm commodity expert Don Coxe, “we will then have a full-blown food crisis” – one far worse than 2008.