There are several causes of hunger and famine in Africa including drought which ruins harvests, lack of access to land and technology for small-scale farmers, and rising food prices. This leads to economic problems as many Africans live on less than $1 per day and countries rely on food imports. Proposed solutions include microloans to start small businesses and generate income to purchase food, and tree planting which could increase food production over time by preventing erosion and improving climate conditions for farmers. Tree planting is considered the best solution as it will offer sustainable resources and jobs in the long run.
Hunger has always affected many people of many countries all around the world, such as in Asia and Africa. We want to raise more awareness to the public about the reasons for hunger, specifically for the people in Africa. We want to be able to show people how hunger is a growing problem to our modern world.
Luca Russo
POLICY SEMINAR
Technical Discussion on the 2019 Global Report on Food Crises: Working together to prevent food crises
Co-Organized by IFPRI, FAO North America and Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
APR 26, 2019 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT
Event organized by IFPRI, FAO, and Community for Zero Hunger "The Zero Hunger Challenge - Achieving the Right to Food for All" presentation by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO
on January 30, 2014
http://www.ifpri.org/event/zero-hunger-challenge
Hunger has always affected many people of many countries all around the world, such as in Asia and Africa. We want to raise more awareness to the public about the reasons for hunger, specifically for the people in Africa. We want to be able to show people how hunger is a growing problem to our modern world.
Luca Russo
POLICY SEMINAR
Technical Discussion on the 2019 Global Report on Food Crises: Working together to prevent food crises
Co-Organized by IFPRI, FAO North America and Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
APR 26, 2019 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT
Event organized by IFPRI, FAO, and Community for Zero Hunger "The Zero Hunger Challenge - Achieving the Right to Food for All" presentation by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO
on January 30, 2014
http://www.ifpri.org/event/zero-hunger-challenge
Forced migration has accompanied persecution, as well as war, throughout human history but has only become a topic of serious study and discussion relatively recently. This increased attention is the result of greater ease of travel, allowing displaced persons to flee to nations far removed from their homes, the creation of an international legal structure of human rights, and the realizations that the destabilizing effects of forced migration, especially in parts of Africa, the Middle East, south and central Asia, ripple out well beyond the immediate region.
Global food crisis: causes severity and outlookVijay Keraba
Most immediate are the urgent hunger needs in over 37 developing countries, 20 of which are LDCs.
The global food crisis undermines one of the most fundamental human rights – “The right to be free from hunger and malnutrition.”
The 3 billion people living on $2 or less spend between 50 - 80% on food.
Food prices have increased by 83% in just three years.
The price increase has been observed particularly very sharp for staple food crops.
In June-Sept, 2012,
Price of maize increased by 50%
That of wheat increased by 45%
And price of soybean by 40%
“Rebellion of the Hungry”
From Mexico to Pakistan, food prices have doubled in three years and have sparked riots in numerous countries.
Cameroon, Africa- a strike over high fuel prices changed to protest about food prices, 20 people dead.
Egypt - at least 70 people killed, riots due to high price of bread.
The Sunday Herald described the world’s food situation as:
” The Biggest Crisis of the 21st Century”
A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Blood feuds handed down through generations are legendary, and revenge is regarded as a necessary redress of wrongs. The civil war has strengthened these tendencies.
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
Kamiljon Akramov and Katrina Kosec
POLICY SEMINAR
Virtual Event - Food Policy Research and Capacity Development in Eurasia
Co-Organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), World Bank Group, and IFPRI
DEC 2, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 09:00 AM EST
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Forced migration has accompanied persecution, as well as war, throughout human history but has only become a topic of serious study and discussion relatively recently. This increased attention is the result of greater ease of travel, allowing displaced persons to flee to nations far removed from their homes, the creation of an international legal structure of human rights, and the realizations that the destabilizing effects of forced migration, especially in parts of Africa, the Middle East, south and central Asia, ripple out well beyond the immediate region.
Global food crisis: causes severity and outlookVijay Keraba
Most immediate are the urgent hunger needs in over 37 developing countries, 20 of which are LDCs.
The global food crisis undermines one of the most fundamental human rights – “The right to be free from hunger and malnutrition.”
The 3 billion people living on $2 or less spend between 50 - 80% on food.
Food prices have increased by 83% in just three years.
The price increase has been observed particularly very sharp for staple food crops.
In June-Sept, 2012,
Price of maize increased by 50%
That of wheat increased by 45%
And price of soybean by 40%
“Rebellion of the Hungry”
From Mexico to Pakistan, food prices have doubled in three years and have sparked riots in numerous countries.
Cameroon, Africa- a strike over high fuel prices changed to protest about food prices, 20 people dead.
Egypt - at least 70 people killed, riots due to high price of bread.
The Sunday Herald described the world’s food situation as:
” The Biggest Crisis of the 21st Century”
A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Blood feuds handed down through generations are legendary, and revenge is regarded as a necessary redress of wrongs. The civil war has strengthened these tendencies.
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
Kamiljon Akramov and Katrina Kosec
POLICY SEMINAR
Virtual Event - Food Policy Research and Capacity Development in Eurasia
Co-Organized by the Eurasian Center for Food Security (ECFS), World Bank Group, and IFPRI
DEC 2, 2020 - 07:30 AM TO 09:00 AM EST
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president: “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”
Former Senator Richard G. Lugar's remarks for the 2009 BASIS Conference on "Escaping Poverty Traps: Connecting the Chronically Poor to the Economic Growth Agenda."
In our opinion, poverty is the main reason for hunger, weather is it poverty of an individual or of a whole nation. In developing countries, governments can’t afford to support those in need for food and water and in developed countries there are some individuals who can’t afford their need due to lack of education which caused them to be unable to look for a source of income.
Natural disasters can cause poverty too. Governments should be able to provide shelter and food for those people who their houses and belongings were destroyed by natural disasters.
While food waste and loss is a global problem, YieldWise focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, where 70 percent of the people rely on agriculture for their livelihoods and many of whom are also part of the world's 1.3 billion who are food insecure. Here, 50 percent of fruits and vegetables, 40 percent of roots and tubers, and 20 percent of cereals—all of which are staple foods—are lost in the post-harvest stage or processes. As such, these vulnerable people are twice-hit.
2. What is hunger and famine? Food is one of the most important assets in life, you need it to survive. Three degrees of hunger: acute, chronic, and hidden. Famine: caused by the shortage of inability of people to obtain food. Usually caused by low food production resulting from drought, other factors, or it could be a result of the inability of a country or its population to afford to buy food.
3. The problem? Drought – mainly farmers, no irrigation Ban natural resources Not enough money
4. Political Causes and Effects African farmers cultivate small plots of land that do not produce enough to meet the needs of their families. The problem is compounded by the farmers' lack of bargaining power and lack of access to land, finance and technology. The government had no choice but to raise prices because there is nothing importing or exporting. The prices for tools, fertilizers, seeds, and other farming oriented needs are constantly rising, and the farmer’s don’t have a constant income. Lastly, Africa’s technology isn’t most supreme, and their agriculture is terrible, and the government isn’t doing enough to help them meet their needs.
5. Social Causes and Effects Given that Africa is rural, and dry, all they do is farm, in Africa farmers make up 80 percent of the population. This becomes a social aspect as well because farming is their everything. That is how they get their food. Since the droughts and other causes of hunger and famine, people have to begin to migrate. Africa’s population has been rising as well, therefore making it hard for people to migrate.
6. Economic Causes and Effects Drought. It has ruined harvests and left people and livestock without food and water. Due to drought in Africa, this has led to a shocking amount of bad natural resources then leading to little to no crops being grown or harvested. The main problem of famine and hunger is not only drought but most African countries are not self-sufficient in food and are relying on imports and income to pay for them. The food prices have gone up around 57 percent, more than 41 percent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $1 per day, and 32 percent are undernourished. No money to buy food, and bad resources and drought lead to no food being grown. Leaving everyone starving.
9. Solution 1 Microloans: small sum of money which an individual borrows from another individual, group or legal entity with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest). supporters are giving money to people in africa to start small buisnesses to start making money to pay for food, and to possibly grow food. .
10. Positives People will be able to start businesses Be able to make money from their businesses With the money you can grow crops
11. Negatives Loans eventually have to be paid back Can only receive a certain amount of money Money may be wasted Through the process, money could potentially get lost
12. Solution 2 Tree planting: prevents deforestation which is also a problem in Africa. As well, farmers are struggling to feed their families while farmable land could diminish by up to two thirds the next 20 years.
13. Positives Tree planting can prevent hunger. Many foreign companies in Africa are planting trees in areas that could have been used for food production. These newly built forests will prevent erosion, desertification, and best, create a better local climate for poor farmers and help them increase their food production. Positive effect on environment as well.
14. Negatives Trees will take a while to grow Only 1 tree is planted for every 28 cut
15. The Best Solution? SOLUTION 2! Tree planting will in future will offer quality wood from sustainable forestry without depleting natural resources. The harvesting of sustainable natural resources will create jobs, income opportunities and economical development as local supporting industries are created.
16. My involvement! Stop Hunger Now! Stop Hunger Now launched its meal packaging program in 2005. The meals combine rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix, including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Each meal costs only 25 cents. Has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly. International.
Editor's Notes
My topic is hunger and famine in africaIn recent statistics it there is said to be around 37 million people in Near East and North Africa hungry, and around 239 Sub-Saharan Africans hungry.
1. Acute hunger applies to mainly victims of famine that is a condition in which death is about to happen due to an absolute shortage of food. 2. Chronic hunger refers to a lack of food intake that is adequate for health, growth, and minimum energy needs. 3. Hidden hunger describes those with a lacking diet for a long period of time, will probably result in a shortened life span
The main problem is drought, this is bad because most people in Africa are farmers,Africa also doesn’t have the best resources and even the best resources they have, have been mostly monopolised by European and American companies largely taking money out of Africa. And worst of all they are just very poor making it hard for them in every way.
There are a few causes and effects to the problem of hunger and famine in Africa. The Political are…
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Receiving money…. It may not be enough for soomeone to actually start a business
Solution 1, the loans will have to be paid back and what if your business doesn’t thrive and doesn’t make money, although they are trying to help by giving money that is not always the best option. Solution 2 would be the best option because although it will take a little time, It is good for the environment, offer jobs, and help with hunger crisis.