Food Depopulation

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WORLD 'S FOOD INSECURITY: STATUS, CAUSES & SOLUTION
Reality
Darwin 's law of struggle for existence can be evidenced clearly in the food deficit areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and South-Eastern and Western Asia. In this modern technical era where peoples are aiming to settle in the moon, some part of earth still faces the pathetic problem of food insecurity. In the tall buildings of the urban area, where peoples talk about connecting the world by a web, the other part of the world is getting into the riddle of the hunger more and more. Where the urban population is changing their diet from traditional to healthier low-fat food, the other part of the global population is craving for a morsel. Where a part of the world is enjoying the abundance …show more content…

Some of them still survive on the age of hunting and gathering. But urbanizing population is even destroying the hunting area of such population for industrialization and plotting. The deficit population keeps striving and struggling for surviving. But unfortunately, most of them fail and those who are eliminated from nature are estimated to accounts for 36 million. Every 5 seconds a child under 5 dies because of hunger, or of directly related causes. Those who die, at least get liberation from the painful nature, that is unable to feed its creatures. However, ones left behind keep struggling to refill their empty stomach. And such population go through a severe problem of malnutrition. Malnutrition is the major cause of death. A report reveal that nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to under-nutrition, translating into the loss of about 3 million young lives a …show more content…

To ensure proper access, there is a need of catalyzing the development of effective distribution systems, market channels, increase investment to output market and should make food security friendly import-export policy. To solve the problem of food insecurity, we not only should focus on food system but also on other factors that are related to food security. The attributing factors are women 's education, women 's active participation in agricultural activities, lifestyle, culture, access to health services, basic sanitation, and others. These factors are positively correlated with food security. As we step toward more improved factors, we step forward for food security. Empowering women is critical for hindering the food insecurity problem. FAO estimates that if women had the same access to productive resources as men, women could boost yield by 20-30%; raising the overall agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5-4%. This gain in production could lessen the number of hungry people in the world by 12-17%, besides increasing women’s income. The countries empowering women tend to see lower rates of stunting (low height for age), the primary measure of chronic under-nutrition. Enhancing women 's control over decision-making in the household, translates gender equality into better prospects and greater

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