Hunger and Poverty

Hunger is everywhere we look, in Africa and even here in our city. Hunger exists because of poverty and poverty exist because of the economic crisis. Hungers principal cause is as I said poverty, many people are dying of hunger because they do not have enough money to pay for water and basic foods. If they have a little bit of money what they do is get the cheapest type of food they can find and buy as much as they can so they can survive a few more days.

Many of the foods that these people can buy actually affect more their health than help it. Because to have good health we have to eat a variety of foods, if we eat to much of one food depending of what it is, we can gaing weight or have some other health problems that can make us end up in hospitals. But these people cannot even affor to buy food, how are they going to afford a hospital if they need it? Lucky in many places we have instutions that open on week-end monrings that serve food to homeless people and othe people that can not afford to buy food, besie week-ends they are also opened on holidays, so poor people can also enjoy those days. These insitutions are made possible by peoples donations and the people who are there to give out the food are all voluntaries.

There are also other types of institutions for poor people, there are shelters that take in poor people for the night and they open every night, leting in each time diferent homeless people, they have to line up and wait; but still there is not enough room for all of them.

Hunger is a terrible thing in the world and maybe this is one problem that we will never be able to solve for completly, but still we try, we can make more of these institutions that help homeless people and people that can not afford to buy good type of foods.

Food crisis

For two decades, leading up to the millennium, global demand for food increased steadily, along with growth in the world’s population, record harvests, improvements in incomes, and the diversification of diets. As a result, food prices continued to decline through 2000.
But beginning in 2004, prices for most grains began to rise. Although there was an increase in production, the increase in demand was greater.
Food stocks became depleted. And then, in 2005, food production was dramatically affected by extreme weather incidents in major food-producing countries. By 2006, world cereal production had fallen by 2.1 percent. In 2007, rapid increases in oil prices increased fertilizer and other food production costs.
As international food prices reached unprecedented levels, countries sought ways to insulate themselves from potential food shortages and price shocks. Several food-exporting countries imposed export restrictions. Certain key importers began purchasing grains at any price to maintain domestic supplies.
This resulted in panic and volatility in international grain markets. It also attracted speculative investments in grain futures and options markets. Perhaps as a result, prices rose even higher.
At the moment, food commodity prices appear to be stabilizing. But prices are expected to remain high over the medium to long term with devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Hunger and World Poverty

Poverty means the lack of resources to afford basic human needs. Poverty is a global issue that entire world has been facing a long time ago. Poverty itself causes a lot of other things like hunger. According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes!! And unfortunately most of these people are children. And we know that there is a lot of food around the world, but the problem here is poverty. They don’t have the enough resources to pay for food. And like they don’t have the enough money to pay for food they need to take food from the trash or things like that, so they are malnourished. With this they are more propane to have disease and they are weaker and this enables them to work and they can’t have money. As we can see this is like a cycle all is connected.

There are some programs that try to decrease poverty. For example, there are jobs were they are paid with food by making structures, school, etc.For children there is a program that if they go to school they receive food.

I think that this is good way to make decrease poverty, because if children are having education they can work and also they are having food so they can be nourish and with energy to go to school. And adults are having work and food at the same time. It is a good way that in al the world should be practiced.