Great Famine

The Ik On the eastern side of the African continent, near the borders of Kenya and South Sudan, in the mountains of northern Uganda you will find the Ik people. With a current population estimate of less than 10,000, they are a small African tribe (“The IK people of North-East Uganda”). Their villages consist of individual grass and stick homes with a small courtyard and fire pit, individually surrounded by a stockade with a doorway, leading into a communal stockade with gates to the outside.…

This can be seen in many parts of Africa today. While many are considering different causes of famine in Africa, Irogbe and Kema suggest that: “The first and most commonly advanced explanation of famine in sub-Saharan Africa is the neo-Malthusian overpopulation theory, or the increase of a population at a pace that exceeds any increase in the food supply”(Irogbe and Kema). What this basically means…

More than one third of the food produced on Earth each year is wasted, that is thirty million pounds of food. Food is especially wasted in rich countries, such as America and Great Britain. There is a ton of food that is wasted in restaurants, and there is a simple solution to that: smaller portions. In America we eat huge portions of food, so much that when people from other countries come to visit they cannot eat half of our…

It is estimated that chronic hunger kills ten children every sixty seconds. More people die from causes that are related to chronic hunger than to famine. They have fewer resources to protect themselves and their families and are already living on the margin of survival. There are five main things that contribute to most of the world’s hunger: poverty, armed conflicts, environmental overload, discrimination…

DROUGHT ADAPTATIONS IN KENYA INTRODUCTION The Lancet commission on Health and Climate change June 2015 list four direct effect of climate change; ’Increase heat stress, floods, drought and increased frequency of intense storms”( The Lancet, 2015). Who. int (2015) describes drought as a period in the climate cycle caused by lack of rainfall that result in lack of water that then leads to food shortages. The populations mostly affected by this climate induced disaster are; people of low social…

World hunger is a growing problem around the globe and could easily be reduced. This affects many people in multiple countries, causing people to suffer terrible hardships and possible death from the side effects of being malnourished. There are three ways that world hunger can be decreased. First, world hunger can be decreased tremendously if humans shared in the wealth of food and money. Additionally, providing school meal programs across the globe will draw children to school for nutritious…

The Lost Children of Sudan should remain in Sudan because they need to repair their country. Neighboring countries and continents should aid them with their problems and be more involved to prevent the wars that are producing child soldiers. Sudan suffered from multiple long civil wars, on and off since 1955. During the wars, the armies would train children, at any age under 18, to operate a gun and kill the opposing side. These children became the “Lost Children of Sudan”. Even though the…

There are many place in Indianapolis that try to help with hunger. Theses places can be anywhere from places that you can receive a hot meal from, have access to food at food pantry, food banks and many others. One organization that I was interested and wanted to learn more about was Gleaners. Gleaners is a food bank that help many residents of Indiana. Gleaner food bank wants to try and be able to give food foe every table and give people hope for there future. Gleaners wants to help with…

Evaluation of ' 'Poverty Is Literally Making People Sick Because They Can 't Afford Food ' ' Malik Miah 's article ' 'It 's War on the Poor ' ' starts that in USA, base on income, there are around fifty millions of Americans who leave in poverty(2). These people face many difficulties which can be injustice, malnutrition, starvation or poor health conditions. Concerning starvation and poor health conditions, Matthew O 'Brien says in ' 'Poverty Is Literally Making People Sick Because…

gone down, thanks to organizations and government help. The most famished nation is Africa, this has been a known fact for years and the first thing to pop into most people 's heads when they first hear of hunger. The problem in this nation is famine. Famine is brought on mostly from drought, there is little that can be done to prevent it, but the few precautions there are are ruined due to Civil wars, political tensions and military campaigns. Countries where hunger is the worst has to do with…