Hello, you are welcome to this blog today we will be looking at a very important topic that should be of great interest to you. We will be looking at food insecurity. There are so many people,society and country battling with food insecurity, we have a lot of hunger and starvation all around. I will be looking to answer food related questions. Thanks for reading through
WHAT IS FOOD INSECURITY?
Food insecurity is when people lack sustainable physical or economic access to enough safe, nutritious, and socially acceptable food for a healthy and safe living which thus lead to hunger and starvation.
DO YOU KNOW MORE THAN 800 MILLION PEOPLE LIVES WITH HUNGER IN THIS WORLD PRESENTLY
WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF FOOD INSECURITY?
The following are the causes of food insecurity
War
Climate change
Diseases Outbreak
Poor storage facilities
Drought and other extreme weather event
Bad leaders in charge of helm of affairs
Cash crops dependency
WHICH COUNTRIES ARE AFFECTED WITH FOOD INSECURITY?
According to FAO, the following counties are affected with food insecurity:
Africa. Angola. Burkina Faso. Burundi. Central African Republic. Chad. Democratic Republic of Congo. Republic of Congo. Côte d'Ivoire. Eritrea. Ethiopia, Nigeria and many more other African countries
Asia/Near East. Afghanistan. Indonesia. Iraq. Dem. People's Rep. of Korea. Lebanon. Mongolia. Nepal and many more
Latin America/Caribbean. Colombia. Cuba. Haiti.
Europe. Russian Federation (Chechnya)
WHAT DOES FOOD INSECURITY LEADS TO?
THe following are the result of food insecurity:
Hunger
Starvation
Diseases outbreak
Death
Poor living standard
WHO ARE THE MOST AFFECTED?
The most affected falls in to three groups and they are:
Children
Women
People with Disabilities
WHY SHOULD I CARE?
They are human being like you
They need your love and support
If nothing is done about it , it could lead to massive migration to countries where there is food security thereby collapsing the world system
WHAT IS THE WAY OUT?
Developed countries needs to put more pressure on leaders of developing country to prioritise food security for their people
Education
Countries should move from subsistence farming to mechanized farming
Corruption should be fight till when totally rooted out
Effective and good storage system should be built
International donors and world bodies should as a matter of urgency help the affected countries out
DO YOU CARE?
THANKS FOR READING THROUGH
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Nice post on food insecurity. However, I think the approach that people take toward food insecurity should be modified.
The primary source of food insecurity is GOVERNMENT and its counter part POLITICS.
NOTE: WAR is something that is usually carried out by GOVERNMENTs.
Mass starvation seems to happen when governments go wrong. This can happen by either too little government. There is no protection for the people. Too much government can starve the people as well.
I think it is foolish to think of food insecurity as only a third world issue. An unacceptably large number of people in the US are dependent on the welfare system in developed nation. People in the US who are dependent on Food Stamps or their Social Security Checks for food are dependent on an organization that already $20 trillion in debt.
The best way to get rid of food insecurity is to develop monetary systems that are less prone to manipulation than our fiat currencies. We also need to do a better job distributing the means of production (ownership) than we are currently doing.
It is great for people to talk about food insecurity. However, when the conversation is consistently twisted to claims that bigger government is the answer, then we should watch out.
Lovely post, quite Insightful.......