Hunger is a huge issue in the world. An estimated 25,000 people die everyday because of hunger-related issues. 850 million people, globally, are chronically hungry. There are several problems that have all come together to worsen this worldwide hunger issue. These issues are, rising feul prices, increased grain demand, and failed harvests. Rising feul prices, increases the cost of the production of food. the increase in grain demand is also a big cause of hunger. " China and other developing nations are annualy using millions of tons more of imported corn, wheat, and soybeans to feed cattle, pigs, and chickens"(christianity today). Alot of oilseeds and grains are also used to produce biofeuls, annualy. Finally, failed harvests that have been caused by natural disasters, destroy crops and land, and leave people with no food. Although this food crisis can be partly blamed on natural disasters, it is mainly a man made problem. There is little investestment in modernizing traditional argriculture, food distribution is tainted by polotics, cash crops take the place of domestic food production, and food is not secured because of violent conflicts (christianity today).
It can be easy for us to forget about the food crisis if we ourselves do not struggle with the problem of getting food, but there are millions of people worldwide who are chronically hungry and our attention is needed. How can we help? There are several organizations hunger outreach organizations which we can support. The main thing is that we pray for this problem. Especially pray for Africa, which has 21 out of the 35 nations most affected by this food crisis.
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eliot, good topic. there are at least three issues concerning world hunger. 1. food production - certainly there are some failed production in different parts of the world, but to my knowledge, by and large, the sum total of world food production should be able to feed everyone. so that leads to the second issue. 2. food distribution. in the midst of food crisis and world hunger, for many parts of the world, many of us still enjoy life without hunger. it is because food has been distributed unfairly to our corner of the world. 3. unfair competition - when a rich country forces a poor country to open for free trade, how does the poor country compete with industrialized farm of the rich country? the poor country will then become dependent on the rich and gradually loses capacities to compete even further.
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