Food security

George Washington Carver, John Deere, and many more. Agriculture has developed a lot over time. Over 200 years ago, 90 percent of the U.S population lived on farms and produced the foods that are necessary to life, such as fruits, vegetables, meats, and dairy. Today it is said that only 2 percent produce enough food to support them. There are many new techniques in use that weren’t known of some time ago. “Today there are things like motorized equipment,…

Thomas Malthus, an English economist in 1798 predicted that with an exponentially growing population and an increase in food production, the world would not be able to sustain itself. Luckily this prophecy has not come true, but with the threat still looming, people are doing whatever they can to keep up with the ever growing increase in population. One of the revolutionary techniques to combat world starvation is genetically modified organism (GMO). A GMO is a plant, animal or other organism…

coined in the American Heritage Dictionary as a condition that increases body weight caused by an excessive accumulation of body fat. According to researchers, there are three main causes of obesity: genetics, lack of exercise, and/or a lack of healthy food in one’s diet. 1 Genetics is a contributing factor to obesity, but studies show that a mere one percent of obesity is caused by hormonal changes. 2 The second cause of obesity is one that is consistently up for debate. There is enough proof…

impossible, however, our everyday decisions are contributing to this insane and preventable forthcoming. There has always been a strong debate as to whether or not we would be able to feed ourselves in the future, in the sense of there being enough food. Nowadays, many of the world’s hungriest countries and populations depend on the help of others to get their necessities. Earth is a cruel dog-eat-dog world where ignorance has seemed to affect almost everybody. We don’t notice how big of an…

ranked the 21st highest in the nation; we still suffer greatly from food insecure families and insufficient means to live by.1 In just this county alone we are seeing an assortment in our annual income from 63% of Coatesville residents earning less than $50,000 a year, to Charlestown, where over 90% of their residents are earning over $50,000 a year. With a population of nearly five-hundred-thousand individuals, nearly 6% are food insecure. That is approximately three-thousand people living in…

told you that Mississippi is one of the most food insecure states as well. Food insecure meaning that access to food is limited by lack of money or other recourses. A study done by USA Today called “States Where the Most Children Go Hungry” suggest that almost 30% of all children in Mississippi are food insecure meaning that when they go home; they probably are not going to have a meal. When I first heard that 30% of all children were food insecure, I was completely shocked. I kept…

11,250. There’s no nice way to look at it. 11,250 kids struggle to get enough food to eat each and every day in Fayette County, Kentucky (God’s Pantry, 2016). The parents of 11,250 young boys and girls are scrambling fruitlessly to find a way to bring food to the table. With few options for relief, it’s no wonder why so many kids go without nutritious meals for prolonged periods of time, whether it is for one year or for their entire childhoods. Hunger in Fayette County has become painfully…

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…

unfortunately not receive the correct education. Thus consequently leaving the people themselves with no skills to acquire a job or way of earning currency further leading them into an endless pit of poverty and eventually hunger.“The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016.”(World Hunger, Poverty Facts, Statistics 2016). Not dealing…

Farmer Field Schools (FFSs) are a great tool in sustainable agricultural development programs because it is a participatory extension approach that includes a significant focus on group and individual capacity building of farmers. The longer-term empowerment goals of the farmer field school seek to enable extensionists to continue to expand their knowledge and to help others learn and to organize activities on their own within their farms to institutionalize practices of sustainable agricultural…