With so many political problems around the world that range from an unstable market to natural disasters, it is safe to say that they are all connected. Hunger, is a problem that everyone can sympathize with. Whether a country is developed or is developing, hunger strikes everywhere. By investigating key political actors, we can interpret data while meeting further research of countries with the highest percentage of people that are malnourished. When the world analyzes data from the past, it will influence the world 's solution for the future. I chose this political issue because hunger is a worldly problem that can easily be solved. “It was almost 40 years ago that US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made a very ambitious promise at a
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“Asia is the continent with the most hungry people- two thirds of the total. Their percentage in south Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it had increased slightly” (wfp.org/hunger/stats). Noting the fact that Asia has the highest population, and if two thirds of that population are malnourished, then the world needs to come up with a different system then what has been in place. When we look at another continent like Africa, “Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence of hunger. One person in four there are undernourished” (wfp.org/hunger/stats). Twenty five percent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished. A country in Africa known as Mozambique has the capacity to export rice or corn to all southern Africa. Instead, it 's dependent on “expensive imports simply because the political elites are not interested in the issue” (Schaeffer). The politicians of Mozambique are more interested in making money than feeding their own starving citizens. The government needed to invest in their own people to make a profit. The odd thing is, is that some people actually benefit from the hungry. “Europe’s farmers are among those who profit. They can produce much more than the market actually demands without having to worry, since high subsidies with broad political support guarantee that they will make ends …show more content…
The programs that have been created are making a difference. We first need to take note what the data is for the hungry around the world. We need to see how much of it is caused by natural disasters then understand what is in place to provide for the hungry. “There are 795 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in nine people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life … 3.1 million children younger than 5 die of malnutrition each year” (wfp.org/hunger). The world can not feed our own people but produce enough food for every single person to never be hungry. Why can’t the elite politicians get together and distribute enough food for everyone to be fed? We can not blame the top elites for everything. “Each year between 80 and 90 percent of natural disasters are climate-related, primarily floods, storms and droughts” (wfp.org/hunger101). Natural disasters are detrimental to agriculture and food supplies. It’s also something humans can’t control. We can control the efforts and programs we put forth in easing the traumatic effects of natural disasters which leads to hunger. For example, “half of World Food Programme (WFP) emergency and recovery operations responded to, and helped people recover from, climate-related disasters, with a budget of US$23 billion. WFP responded to climate disasters in 20 countries more than 5 times” (wfp.org/hunger101).
“Asia is the continent with the most hungry people- two thirds of the total. Their percentage in south Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it had increased slightly” (wfp.org/hunger/stats). Noting the fact that Asia has the highest population, and if two thirds of that population are malnourished, then the world needs to come up with a different system then what has been in place. When we look at another continent like Africa, “Sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence of hunger. One person in four there are undernourished” (wfp.org/hunger/stats). Twenty five percent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa are undernourished. A country in Africa known as Mozambique has the capacity to export rice or corn to all southern Africa. Instead, it 's dependent on “expensive imports simply because the political elites are not interested in the issue” (Schaeffer). The politicians of Mozambique are more interested in making money than feeding their own starving citizens. The government needed to invest in their own people to make a profit. The odd thing is, is that some people actually benefit from the hungry. “Europe’s farmers are among those who profit. They can produce much more than the market actually demands without having to worry, since high subsidies with broad political support guarantee that they will make ends …show more content…
The programs that have been created are making a difference. We first need to take note what the data is for the hungry around the world. We need to see how much of it is caused by natural disasters then understand what is in place to provide for the hungry. “There are 795 million undernourished people in the world today. That means one in nine people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life … 3.1 million children younger than 5 die of malnutrition each year” (wfp.org/hunger). The world can not feed our own people but produce enough food for every single person to never be hungry. Why can’t the elite politicians get together and distribute enough food for everyone to be fed? We can not blame the top elites for everything. “Each year between 80 and 90 percent of natural disasters are climate-related, primarily floods, storms and droughts” (wfp.org/hunger101). Natural disasters are detrimental to agriculture and food supplies. It’s also something humans can’t control. We can control the efforts and programs we put forth in easing the traumatic effects of natural disasters which leads to hunger. For example, “half of World Food Programme (WFP) emergency and recovery operations responded to, and helped people recover from, climate-related disasters, with a budget of US$23 billion. WFP responded to climate disasters in 20 countries more than 5 times” (wfp.org/hunger101).