Great Famine

According to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, the world produces enough food to provide every person with 2,700 calories a day (Agriculture & Famine). Although it is estimated that every person should be properly nourished each day, nearly a quarter of the Sub-Saharan Africa population is malnourished and or in famine. Most experts include that increasing the global distribution of food would be much too complex on a global scale. In turn, increasing local supplies in Africa…

Imagine being in a difficult situation and barely having any money to buy groceries for your family and yourself. This may be true for many people and some may be walking around our campus so we should have Russell support our local pantry by donating to this cause. On the other hand, the Milpitas Food pantry is there to provide our community and together with the Jack Emery Food Drive, they will assist them by gathering all the meals needed. With this in mind, AVID is more than happy to have…

Thesis: Peter Singer’s assessment of charity and duty in his 1972 article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” calls for a fundamental economic and moral overhaul of western society. I will argue that Peter Singer’s ethical and economic model of the global village, while sympathetic, is strategically misleading, impractical and short-sighted. In his 1971 article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality”, Peter Singer draws in his reader with a simple analogy. The analogy states that giving money to help…

Lynn McIntyre’s “food insecurity not the flip side of food security policy” (2011) explains the legitimate concern for food insecurity as it is a public health issue in Canada. Food insecurity has been associated with poor physical and mental outcomes along with chronic conditions (Statistics Canada, 2013). This issue of food insecurity is directly associated with the level of household income (McIntyre, 2011). McIntyre illustrates how the level of household income is a social determinant which…

Feed my starving children is a non-profit organization that packages food to send to malnourished children in several countries. These sustainable meals are made specifically to pack as many nutrients as possible to help nourish and strengthen the children so they can be healthy and conquer their fight against starvation. When most people think about global hunger they think of a lack of production of food in developing countries, however, it’s more than that. Global hunger encompasses not only…

The Sahelian region comprises of countries such as Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Chad, Eritrea, Mauritania, Chad and Niger. Natural disasters such as floods and drought, animal diseases have been more frequent in West Africa (Barnabas, Jager, & Feher 2008). People living in this region have been suffering a lot. These disasters tend to bring about poverty, food insecurity, child malnutrition, conflicts, lack of basic services, poor governance and political instability, and weak economies dependent on…

What would it be like to become so malnourished that you are forced to seek immediate medical attention? Matthew O’Brien brings this issue to light in his article, “Poverty is literally making people sick because they can’t afford food”. The article’s purpose is to expose us to the reality of poverty. He discusses how low-income people get hospitalized when their monthly welfare benefits run out. O’Brien introduces his point that states that the people at the low end of the income level become…

With Famine, Affluence, and Morality, Peter Singer, a moral philosopher and professor at Princeton University, offers an alternative to the Western world’s current ethical situation: choosing to prioritize the life and suffering of others or choosing to prioritize luxuries and an overly comfortable life. Ultimately, Singer makes clear the idea that one should give as much as one can without expense to oneself if it will benefit others and that all men who are capable are obligated to do the same…

As a result of devastating conflicts, the average person in Burundi makes only 560 USD a year; which is barely enough to feed themselves about three months; there is not much happiness in Burundi. More than 66% of the nation are below the poverty line and over 58% of the whole population is starving and/or malnourished. The nation fell into this extreme poverty and starvation about 15 years ago; during a period of civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes. The civil war ended in 2005, but the…

Sustainability and resilience is not a new topic. It is subject that has been around since humans started civilization. Not being able to properly sustain has caused some civilizations to decline in the past. Land is taught to be vast, but in reality, little to that thought is true. Instead land is very limited and must be used wisely. Food shortage have played a key role in the down of many empires. Currently more than one hundred million acres of land that otherwise could be used for…