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Food Shortage In The World

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What are the reasons behind the food shortage in the world today?

The world produces enough to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people. And yet, one person in eight on the planet goes to bed hungry each night. In some countries, one child in three is underweight.There are many reasons for the presence of hunger in the world and they are often interconnected.People living in poverty cannot afford nutritious food for themselves and their families. This makes them weaker and less able to earn the money that would help them escape poverty and hunger. This is not just a day-to-day problem: when children are chronically malnourished, or ‘stunted, ' it can affect their future income, depreciating them to a life of poverty and hunger …show more content…

This food wastage represents a missed opportunity to improve global food security in a world where one in 8 is hungry.
Producing this food also uses up precious natural resources that we need to feed the planet. Each year, food that is produced but not eaten guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the annual flow of Russia 's Volga River. Producing this food also adds 3.3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, with consequences for the climate and, ultimately, for food production.

About 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger. The problem is mainly in Africa but it also has an impact on a number of Asian and Latin American countries. In early 2006 the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation warned that 27 sub-Saharan countries could need food assistance. Food shortages can occur because of both natural and human problems. The natural problems that can lead to food shortages include:
Soil exhaustion
Drought
Floods
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The long civil war and drought have been the main reasons for the famine in the Sudan, but there are many associates factors as well. The civil war which has lasted for over 20 years, is between the govt. in Khartoum and rebel forces in the western region of Darfur and in the south. A Christian Aid document in 2004 described the Sudan as ‘a country still gripped by a civil war that has been fuelled, prolonged and part-financed by oil’. One of the biggest issue between the 2 sides in the civil war is the sharing of the oil wealth between the government-controlled north and the south of the country where most of the oil is found. The United Nation estimated that up to 2 million people have been displaced by the civil war and more than 70,00 people have died of hunger and associated diseases. at times, the UN World Food Programme has stopped deliveries of vital food supplies because situation has been considered too dangerous for the drivers and aid

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About 120 people a day die from starvation in Southern Sudan. In A Long Walk To Water by Linda Sue Park Salva traveled across all over Southern Sudan. Also Salva had to walk that whole way with only one gourd on his back holding water that had to be saved and used with great care. Many hardships in Southern Sudan are war, lack of food/water, and shelter. Many hardships in Southern Sudan are war.

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“The walking began again. Walking – but to where? Not home. There is still war everywhere in Sudan. Not back to Ethiopia the soldiers would shoot us.”(79)

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First starting because of the many religious and cultural differences between north and south Sudan, was escalated to the First Sudanese Civil War in 1955-1972 and the Second Sudanese Civil War in 1983-2005. Then in 2003, the Sudan Government responded to an ongoing rebellion by starting a genocidal campaign that ended with 300,000 deaths and over 3 million Darfuris displaced. The United Nations were watching and sent 9,000 of the 26,000 needed troops and have also donated $500 million to the Darfur peacekeeping efforts. Wiesel said “It is so much easier to look away from victims” and “It is so much easier to avoid such rude interruptions to our work, our dreams, our hopes” (par. 8).

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The Janjaweed militia raid their villages, and burn people’s homes. Many victims suffer from malnutrition everyday because of food and water shortages. It is especially difficult to find water, since there is little rainfall, and the Janjaweed are always hunting down those who attempt to find water, as well as polluting the water sources of villages. Even young children between the ages of ten to fourteen are sent into deserted places to find water, but are (most of the time) eventually killed by the militias. In the case in Darfur, the Arab Africans (Janjaweed and Sudanese Government) believe that they are superior over the black Africans (Civilians and Rebels).

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In the US, 40% of food produced, or approximately 365 million pounds of food, is wasted each day. Food waste, however, is a problem that extends beyond America, affecting billions of people as a global issue. The overwhelming amounts of food that are being discarded contribute to global warming and climate change, and prevent the massive number of hungry people from being able to eat nourishing meals. Humanity as a whole must be more mindful of the Earth and its health, as we are the source which most directly affect it. Due to the profound environmental impacts of food waste, a reduction in the amount disposed is necessary to create a more sustainable environment, and humans have a responsibility to protect the planet, even if it requires drastic changes to the current food system.

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