Hunger, Disclosure And The Policy Process: Article Analysis

According to MacAuslan (2009) article, "Hunger, Disclosure, and the Policy Process: How do Conceptualizations of the Problem of Hunger affect its Measurement and Solution?," looks at how there are different organizations that value world hunger differently. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is associated with the definition of food production. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) are associated with the physical evidence to turn food into nutrition. The organizations justify their definitions with scientific evidence from scientists, who support their position. These organizations neither endure effective use of resources nor refined the measurements of Hunger. (MacAuslan, 2009, p. 358).

Do they believe that food insecurity causes world hunger? In contrast, since the 1970's, government officials have created organizations to respond to global food crisis. For example, the World Food Program (WFP), in which United Nations move food in response to food crisis emergencies. This article is social constructionism, because it looks at how food organizations view world hunger differently, and can how it can cause problems to individual's views on how they see world hunger. The next article is also social constructionism because the article shows how food programs and government officials have not conquered famine or fit the problem in Africa. Baro and Deubel (2006) looks at how famine has stayed the same or even increased in Africa because of government officials and the World Food Program. For example, in Sudan, food relief piled up, because of the lack of transportation the cities had. (Baro, Deubel,2006, p. 532). Also, when food aid arrives, the aid is dropped off on a paved road, because of easy transportation, in which some villages receive no food aid and are not governed by the food

government, but Congress is saving money to cut the budget of U.S. farmers, who support food aid programs. This means farmers will cut back on producing food for the programs to help Africans and other countries in famine need. (Baro, Deubel, 2006, p. 533). Also, program aid donors have little to no understanding of famine, which means they do not know the history of famine or the future crisis of it. Famine prevention needs to be done in long-term programs, instead of waiting for a crisis to happen in countries. (Baro, Deubel, 2006, p. 534). That is social constructionism because it shows how food organizations is supposed to help the famine relief, but it does not. The organizations are not helping Africa enough, in which is making Africa worse, because of famine and lack of transportation the Africans