Major Causes Of World Hunger

Causes of World Hunger There are about 7.3 billion people in our world and there is enough food produced on this planet to feed those many people. With all that food, there is still “one person in eight” starving to the point of death and malnutrition. The reasons people are still starving on planet earth is due to the waste of food, poverty, war, climate, and lack of investment to agriculture. The biggest cause to world hunger is “one third of all the food produced” in the world is wasted. That is about 1.3 billion tons of food each year that goes straight to the trash can. Saving a majority of that food would lower the build in landfills, save billions of dollars, it is wasting natural resources that we use to grow that food and 1.3 billion …show more content…
The continent with the most hunger is Africa, and then Asia and Latin America are behind them. Africa has many countries with the percent of malnourishment at 25% or greater. With “seventy-five percent of the poorest countries” being in Africa, them being the leader in hunger makes sense, because when people don’t have money it makes it difficult to buy food and feed their families. Without food to eat people in poverty tend to become weak and then cannot work to receive more money to buy food in later times. Climate is another major cause to world hunger. It might be a little difficult to grow crops in a desert or grow food where there are rainy seasons that drown the crops. It also would be difficult to let animals graze where there isn’t grass such as the mountains or a desert too. Floods droughts and many natural disasters can cause the food supply to run low too. Drought is the main effect for food shortages because the crops have trouble growing, and when countries, such as ones in Africa, are already suffering from food shortages, a drought to top it off causes even more of a food …show more content…
Some countries lack the ability to grow crops and distribute them cheaply, because their roads may be bad or they may have poor soil for the crops to grow fluently. If these countries put more investment into using better seeds for their soil or distributing their water efficiently and without wasting it, because water may be scarce in that country, then their agriculture may be better. “Research by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that investment in agriculture is five times more effective in reducing poverty and hunger than investment in any other sector.” This research shows that if agriculture was focused on more in the countries that are suffering most in the hunger aspect then there will be less