Great Famine

There are many people out there do not have a easy and happy life like most of us do, therefore, the most importantly, compassion is one of a very important character that each of us should hold in our life, the world without compassion would be no love . no understanding and no warmth. It's sad to see that how someone having a really luxury life while there are many more people out there are just craving for survival, craving for a bread and water. However, after reading the story from “On…

Abstract Globally, we are experiencing excessive average high temperatures and low rainfall, incessant droughts and shortage of ground water as well as surface running water. However, the detrimental impacts of global climate change are rising as the most developing countries are predicted to be mostly affected causing enormous damages due their low capacity to adapt and heavy reliance only little input fed agricultural production system More so, due to the decrease in rainfall and high…

Hunger is an environmental and political problem that we face. Even though food production has increased, and is enough to feed the entire population of the world, still there are more than 1 billion people suffering from hunger. In this report we will discuss the causes, effects of hunger, how to stop it, and the history of hunger. Causes: Hunger is caused by two main reasons to hunger. The first is human caused reasons like wars. For example, the second world war has caused a shortage of…

than they need to be healthy while the poorest countries do not even have enough to prevent death from starvation. Food waste is another demonstration of the severely distorted distribution of food. Developed nations, such as the United States and Great Britain, waste almost as much food as sub-Saharan Africa produces (Royte). If all of that wasted food was given to those who need it instead of discarded by those who merely desire it, we would be one step closer to absolute…

Different organizations define food security as the ability to produce, process, retail and transport enough food for the people around the world and make it accessible all the time with sufficient amounts, keep it safe and nutritious to fulfill the satisfaction of food requirements. Food security has been a concern since 1914-1918, when there was a health problem regarding foods and food shortage in the poorest countries. In order to improve food security, the problems of population, global…

food shortage and famine which is caused by El Nino, however this challenge of food shortage and famine can be traced back to natural triggers (drought) and political crises (civil war). Nevertheless one may argue that a catastrophic food shortage is due to lack of or difficulties in food distribution, affecting large numbers of people due to climate hazard, environmental, socio-economic reasons or extreme political condition such as tyrannical government or warfare, however famine may be define…

Science D Assessment: Food for All The amount of damage done by pests to crops is immense. Approximately 20% of the worldwide yield of food crops are damaged anually because of pests and the diseases pests spread. The human population of the World continues to rise every second and lies by about 7.4 billion people at the moment. Therefore, an ever increasing amount of food also has to be grown. We can not afford to keep on loosing large amounts of food that we start to grow only because of…

Education Programmes in Ban Nammad Mai, Lao PDR 1. Background of the host community Ban Nammad Mai, located in the Luang Namtha province of Lao PDR has the smallest, poorest, and least developed hill tribe which is the Akha ethnic group. The villagers work long hours as a farmers or gardeners and survive on a very low incomes. A large part of the villagers live in a thatch-roof wooden houses that grouped around an open dirt area with lack of basic necessities such as water, food and electricity…

With the rise of attention to meeting the recommend nutritional needs and the growth of the poor, in the British society. “Dispatches: Breadline Kids” a documentary, showing the struggles the common poor, was made. Following 3 families from a different part of England, with different struggles and different reasons on why they have become a part of those who live on the breadline. The family who lives in Hull consist of two daughters and a single mother. Becky who is 13 and Rose who is 8 1/2,…

hungry they are. However, does one really understand what being “hungry” really is? Most people do not have to worry about starving every day, but there are people who do. According to the Merriam – Webster dictionary, hunger is defined as "A very great need for food; a severe lack of food; an uncomfortable feeling in your stomach that causes the need with food."(Webster Inc.) Many lack the knowledge how hunger effects people. The thought of people that could be in our very own community, or…