World Hunger

Do you have any idea about what are the causes of world hunger? Do we know that one of seven people in the world experience hunger and malnutrition? In fact, there are enough foods in the world to feed everyone on Earth. Anyhow, according to the statistics, the current world population is 4.712.200.000, meanwhile the number of undernourished was 797.9 million. Therefore, 17% of the world population currently undernourished or starving.

The first cause of world hunger is poverty. To address world hunger we have to tackle global poverty. Why poverty? Because when people are malnourished, they lose brain function and mental resources into productive assets in the community to earn money. They become less creative, less smart, and it somehow affect their way of life.

The other cause of hunger arise due to lack interest of farming. Rural residents are prefer to move to the city and become an employee instead of being farmers. There are this kind of stigma where life is so much easier when you live in the city, because the city is most likely the center of everything. Their mindset about the city living, somehow makes everyone move to the city and caused the decline in yields of food. The lack of yields in the long run will lead to famine.

Surprisingly, the weather is also quite influential for world hunger. Global warming is happening cause some areas exposed to be drought. The flooding caused some farmland being damaged or totally destroyed. Production may be less predictable. Without high-tech irrigation systems, most farmers in developing countries depend on rainfall. In regions of the world where rain has declined, crops fail. In places where the arrival or departure of seasonal rainfall has shifted, farmers either plant crops too early or too late, missing the highest rainfall. Even for farmers with access to irrigation or state-of-the art weather information, catastrophic storms and droughts will result in production failures.

The next reason is Military conflicts, both internal and between neighbouring countries, can lead to starvation. These conflicts can result in damage to the plant. Also, the conflicts or maybe war, consume too many money of the country and the government putting aside the need of starving people. Military conflicts can also lead to displacement of large groups of people, remove them from their farms and their way of life. People can end up in refugee camps, completely dependent on aid.

There are a lot of world hunger factors and they are changing every year based on the world's condition. The economy, social, politics, and even the level of drought, floods, time to time. In war, food sometimes becomes a weapon. Soldiers will starve opponents into submission by seizing or destroying food and livestock and systematically wrecking local markets. Fields are often mined and water wells contaminated, forcing farmers to abandon their land.