Global Food Security Problems

Most of the children within these families are then undernourished and suffer the consequences hunger has due to the unstable markets within the economy. This unstableness of food prices in a region causes families and children to heavily rely on agriculture for their food and nutrition, but the lack of emphasis and funding on agricultural systems leaves children with nothing. Lack of investment in agriculture is a large part in why children and families are hungry in third world

By challenging common assumptions and being ethical he effectively claims that the solution to solving these global hunger problems is foreign assistance. Paarlberg shows Pathos, Ethos and Logos through the thought of unravelling worldwide starvation by being realistic of the view on pre-industrial food and farming. Pathos is clearly evident in Paarlberg’s article through the presentation of the food insecurity problem in Africa and Asia. He uses impassioned words as an attempt to reach out to his target audience on a more emotional level by agitating and drawing sympathy of whole food shoppers and policy makers. Paarlberg employs Pathos during the article when he says, “The majority of truly undernourished people -- 62 percent, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization -- live in either Africa or South Asia, and most are small farmers or rural landless laborers living in the countryside of Africa and South Asia” (page 611-12).

Although this number, which is a not yet a refined estimate, leaves out those who suffer from vitamin and nutrition shortages and other forms of malnutrition (World Hunger). According to the FAO the world produces enough food to provide everyone with about 2,720 kilocalories per person daily. Then why does hunger exist? The whole number of food troubled people who are poorly nourished or are in need of critical nutrients is probably closer to three billion or half of humanity. The harshness of this situation is made obvious by the United Nations’ estimation over a year ago that almost 18 thousand children lose their life, every single day, as a direct or indirect consequence of poor nutrition.

Yonathan Suraphel Suraphel 1 Ms. Williams Literature 17, Nov. 2015 Feeding America Food insecurity is a very dangerous problem in America. It is more prominent in America than in most countries in Europe. There are many ways we can help people who are food insecure. There are also many ways the government can help too.

Global hunger and poverty are challenges that have always threatened the mankind. Millions of people around the world, specifically those in countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, have suffered extreme conditions of malnutrition and low income that affected other aspects of their lives such as their welfare, education, job opportunities and so on (1). As these challenges have reached their worst levels during the late 90s, the United Nations gathered to, collaboratively, alleviate their effects resulting in the prominent Millennium project, which proposed goals to be achieved over a certain period of time (2). In addition, the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) mainly focused on halving the number of the poor and hungry people in the world from 800 million to 400 million over a period of 25 years from 1990 to 2015 (2). Fortunately, throughout the period 1998-2002 many improvements took place that facilitated the reduction of poverty and hunger in the developing countries in Asia such as China (2).

The right to food is a human right. It is universal, acknowledged at the national, regional and international level, and applies to every person and group of persons. Currently, however, some 852 million persons throughout the world are seriously – and permanently undernourished, 815 million of whom are in developing countries, 28 million in countries in transition and 9 million in developed (―industrialized‖) countries. Furthermore, every five seconds, a child under ten years of age dies of hunger or malnutrition1 – more than 5 million per year.

As a result, that is why hunger and other factors that lead to deaths are the reasons for the impossibility of endless growth and development. If the species can adjust its birth rate, there will be fewer cases of hunger and deaths. It makes more sense if one knows the birth control policy in China in the past. At the early stages of the country, people tend to bear as many children as they can; yet the following hunger becomes a huge burden to most of the families, especially those in poorer areas. For the sake of increasing productivity and feeding more children, the government later comes up with the decision of family planning.

Intense starvation and poverty is a worldwide problem and not just an individual problem because it economically affects others as well as themselves, it also sheds some light on what is in fact going on in the world rather than what is hidden from society, and lastly diseases are more susceptible to spread worldwide if this continues.

Feeding the world; what does it mean, how can we do that, and who needs fed. These are questions we often ask our selves when talking about food security, hunger, and feeding the world. Hunger has always been a problem and is increasing as the world increases with more people to feed. I myself have never been food insecure, but I grew up in Mitchell County, IA where many people go hungry on a daily basis. People all over the world are struggling everyday to put food on the table for themselves and their kids.

The current global situation regarding the global population and food production is that there is in fact enough people to feed everyone but there is still 815 million people starving in the world. By 2050 people will have to produce 50 percent more food globally to feed everyone. World hunger is still affecting about 11% of the population globally. From 2015 to 2016 itself world hunger and undernourished people has increased by 777 million to 815 million in 2016. The two major school concerning population growth both have aspects that can be considered correct and incorrect.

Literature Review: Theoretical Approaches, Empirical Studies, Analytical Concepts and Legal Frameworks Theoretical Approaches towards food security With respect to the theoretical approaches to food security, there are three theories developed in 1970s and 1980s as cause to food insecurity. The first one is Climate theory; this theory explains food insecurity as caused by climatic phenomena. Cox, related this theory with the concept of “famine belt” in which he directly links climate condition to food insecurity. This theory argued that in the national or local level, climate linked phenomena such as drought, floods and others are a major factor causing food insecurity (Cox, 1981, cited in Steven Engler,

However, these examples are of the most effective to implement. Population growth is typically characterized by a lack or misuse of resources. The problems comes from not distributing the resources the optimal way, allowing the country to fall into economic depression and perpetuating population growth. Yet, the true solutions come in sharing these resources equally. When given access to quality healthcare, equal income, education, and opportunities besides the large family model of developing countries, human will expand their choices beyond only having children.

Food is one of the basic needs for human, the supply and demand of food never decreased. However, the demand and supply in food has been reversed, which lead to a serious food wastage. In the evaluation by UNEP, every year the total of food being wasted corresponds to half of the world’s yearly cereal product ("Key facts on

Hunger problem exists mostly in underdeveloped countries. Hunger could be transmitted from mother to child. Every year, million of children are born underweight because their mothers are also

This indicates that most of the world would face a decrease in cereal production to different extends estimated in 2004. The statistics collected by Campbell et al. (2016) proved that an approximately 6% reduction of wheat yields will happen for every degree rise in temperature. Furthermore, according to Mburia (2016), the Arabica coffee is becoming less attributing to the rising temperature and unpredictable rainfall. Consistent with the trend in the deterioration of climate change, it is safe to deduce that the living environment for crops and plants will remain