World Hunger In Sub-Saharan Africa

Many countries around the world have developed food deficiency and food insecurity issues. Deficiency is the lack or shortage of something, so food deficiency is the shortage of food; and food insecurity is when people in an area do not have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food at all times to meet their dietary needs. There are five main factors that contribute to a country having food deficiency and food insecurity issues, these being: environmental, demographic, political, social, and economic factors. All of these factors have influenced Ethiopia to having food deficiency and food insecurity problems. Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is home to about 85 million people, and has been suffering from food deficiency and insecurity problems for quite a while. These five factors have contributed to Ethiopia’s current state, in regard to food.

population, however, one in nine are food insecure. Food security, defined by the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security is “the condition in which all people, at all times, have physical, economic and social access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.” Developing countries are most at risk of food insecurity with Sub-Saharan Africa having the highest prevalence of hunger.

As time goes on the advancement in creations and technology grow to help make everyday life easier. For most living in a first world country, the thought of where will the next meal, drink, or shelter will come from is unlikely. Humans have found ways to reach the moon, send satellites into orbit, and connect with one another across the world with just a click of a button. One feasible problem is so over looked and has a general lack of awareness, and that is world hunger.

Africa is indeed a hot area, then there are rare hunger that struck there. The country suffered a famine is located in the Sahel, Somalia is one of the country. The famine that threatens the region AfrikaTimur it be worsened to become the largest humanitarian crisis in decades. Tens of thousands of Somali refugees flooding into refugee camp in Ethiopia and Kenya. Nearly three thousand new refugees arrived at the camp to look for food after their farm was destroyed due to a few seasons pass without rain. In the release gets 2 August 2011, Oxfam called on the Government and donor agencies immediately acted quickly to prevent the crisis worsening in Eastern Africa. The Agency stated, the international community failed to address the crisis more uncontrolled. The disaster that has caused thousands of Somalis fled to neighbouring countries.

Hunger in Africa is one of the biggest problems faced in this world today. Most of these deaths are faced by children under five. Even though there is a lot of food in the world, people in Africa can’t access these foods because of poverty. Because of the hunger problem, the majority of people suffer from blindness, anemia, malnutrition related problems and other diseases because they are not getting enough diet. Nicholas Bariyo (news story) researched how the food shortage has double in Africa over the last couple of years.In the Washington post an anonymous writer talks about how people in Africa suffer between those who suffer from food shortages caused by drought and pestilence and those who hold deep suspicions about the

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.

Normally, three square meals a day is the normal diet for a properly nourished human being, but nobody realizes how lucky they are with only one square meal a day. One of the many issues that are global is world hunger. One person every four seconds die of starvation, which means about 21,000 people die by being undernourished every day. Children all over the world are physically and mentally abused due to lack of food, and their chances of them living a long life are not very big. What makes matters worse, is that 1\3 of the food produced is never even consumed, which means if people did not throw away food, world hunger around the world would not exist. Each year, the number of people dying from starvation rapidly increases, and nobody realizes that we can save more than ¼ of the human population just by donating food.

The world today as we know it is struggling. We still find it challenging to solve world hunger. Thus, we as a community have a difficulty of eating healthier. As of today, most American would rather eat McDonald’s than trying to eat organic food. One reason would have to be is that McDonald’s is more affordable than organic food or getting vegetables in a supermarket, which leads to higher risk in health issues. Michael Pollan suggests to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” (Pollan). Moreover, a virtue ethicist would believe that if eating plants are doing the right thing, then they would do it because that’s is the type of person they are. While a biblical ethicist approach would be to stop eating meat so that there would be more grain

“ Africa has been suffering food crisis for years and years. Throughout all the recurring droughts that just come naturally, it is very difficult for Africans to grow food. In America alone we have given Africa billions and billions of dollars for food aid. Everyone is wondering “Why are Africans are still starving, and asking for more money?”.(Famine in Africa) Many of the places in Africa are caught up in food insecurity.Food insecurity is the main reason for starvation in Africa.Without having the nutrition of food it will cause Africans to be ill. Being ill causes Africans to not have energy and without energy it is difficult to go out and plant and raise crops. “From illness in Africa alone 12 Africans

Hunger has always been a part of the history of humankind. Today we are more aware of this issue, especially on a global level. Most initiatives and assistance programs were previously received funding from the private sector primarily through religious affiliations, however, in May of two thousand ten the United States launched the global hunger and food security initiative known as Feed the Future, or FTF to aid nineteen countries including areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean (FTF, 2014). The selection of participating regions follows a five-step criterion, which addresses their need, their opportunity for partnerships, their potential for agriculture, and the resources available to them, while, evaluating their synergy or ability to interact with two or more organization, which produces greater combined effects. This program works in collaboration with other agencies to employ not only the use of training, technology, and resources of the countries involved , but to also help the countries boost ownership of the solutions to their hunger. According to the Feed the Future Progress Report 2014, vital areas, such as inclusiveness, empowerment, effectiveness, as well as sustainability, substantiate that these central concepts addressed are slowly providing a means to ending hunger as well as extreme poverty. This program is empowering men and women farmers with emphasis on building skills and knowledge in order to provide sustainable practices, thus,

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.

About 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy and active life, according to the Food Aid Foundation. That is equivalent to about one in nine people on earth (“Hunger Statistics”). While many people are going to bed hungry, it is reported that Americans throw out almost as much food as they consume. Journalist Suzanne Goldenberg reveals America’s food waste problem and the effect it has on world hunger and poverty. By using pathos and representations, Goldenberg succeeds in making her audience both aware of the problem and what role they play in deepening world hunger.

World hunger is an ever-prominent obstacle that handicaps nearly a seventh of earth’s population. According to Mission 2014, an organization dedicated to fighting world hunger, “thirty-five percent of all childhood deaths are attributed to undernutrition” (2010). Throughout my experience with volunteering at a food pantry, I saw how much food was being given away, as well as being thrown out because of how much excess food was beginning to expire. This made me wonder if the world’s problem isn’t a lack of food, but in reality, a faulty distribution system (see Figure 1 below). In “Global Food Scarcity: Definition, Distribution, Roadblocks”, Jaclyn Tan suggests that “Human institutions, such as government, public policy and aid organizations” can “step in to reduce a scarcity of food” (Tan). She informs the reader that the purpose of these institutions is to “produce and distribute food” as well as “import and export food if there are shortages or excesses” (Tan). When considering the amount of people in the world who are starving, it is obvious there is an indisputable need for change. Even with these human institutions in place, the world needs corrected solutions to fix the failing distribution system. By looking at countries that have distribution systems in place already, solutions can be found that will further improve upon those systems as well as create solutions for developing countries.

One in eight people in the world are suffering from chronic hunger and sixty percent of the world’s hungry are female. There are approximately 168.4 million more women than men who are regularly not getting enough food to lead an active life. Though the number of hungry is 17 percent lower than the total number of undernourished reported in 1990-92, there are significant differences is the amount of improvement among regions. Of the 842 million people suffering from hunger, 827 million live in developing countries. One in three children in developing

World wide, substantial food is produced to relevantly feed everyone, although this food and the technological advances to produce it might not continually reach those in need. As a result of food shortages, nearly one thousand million people do not get a sustainable amount of food to eat and over four hundred