People tend to agree on the fact that food is necessary for life and that for anyone to have to be without it is a disgrace. Unfortunately, with extreme poverty comes extreme hungry and malnutrition. Because food necessary component of life, hunger is one of the first things nongovernmental organizations target. This is also where they can unintentionally cause the most harm to communities that are already struggling because if food aid is not handled properly it can harm a community. The influx of aid causes for markets to be artificially saturated with produce causing the local market to suffer (Outreach International, 2015). The most recent and publicly discussed example of this is rice donations in Haiti following the earthquake in 2010.
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Just because there is no in your face example at the moment on the effect of food aid does not mean that it is still not happening today. Food aid is still causing issues in developing nations around the world. Causing local farmers’ efforts to become economically sufficient to be undermined. Society needs to address the negative effects it is having on developing regions before it gets out of hand and we completely destroy markets that developing countries desperately need in order to grow. When the market is weakened or destroyed it sets the community back in terms of development. All the progress they had made towards bettering themselves is lost. It could take years for the people to begin to recover and start to develop themselves …show more content…
Even though many of the methods used did not completely develop the people instead of providing quick fixes they were able to have some positive effect on abolishing poverty. Nearly half of the world population was living below the poverty line in 1990. Now in 2015 in just 25 years late that 50% has been dropped down 14%. In other words more than 1 billion people have been saved from extreme poverty in the last 25 years alone. Along with poverty falling in the past 25 years so has extreme hunger. In developing regions the number of undernourished people has been cut in half in 25 years. However, society does not need to start slacking now because we still have work to do. An estimated 800 million people are still trapped in extreme poverty, and an estimated 795 million people are undernourished (United Nations,
Just because there is no in your face example at the moment on the effect of food aid does not mean that it is still not happening today. Food aid is still causing issues in developing nations around the world. Causing local farmers’ efforts to become economically sufficient to be undermined. Society needs to address the negative effects it is having on developing regions before it gets out of hand and we completely destroy markets that developing countries desperately need in order to grow. When the market is weakened or destroyed it sets the community back in terms of development. All the progress they had made towards bettering themselves is lost. It could take years for the people to begin to recover and start to develop themselves …show more content…
Even though many of the methods used did not completely develop the people instead of providing quick fixes they were able to have some positive effect on abolishing poverty. Nearly half of the world population was living below the poverty line in 1990. Now in 2015 in just 25 years late that 50% has been dropped down 14%. In other words more than 1 billion people have been saved from extreme poverty in the last 25 years alone. Along with poverty falling in the past 25 years so has extreme hunger. In developing regions the number of undernourished people has been cut in half in 25 years. However, society does not need to start slacking now because we still have work to do. An estimated 800 million people are still trapped in extreme poverty, and an estimated 795 million people are undernourished (United Nations,