Lessons can be taught to help prevent future disasters and save lives: respond during the early symptoms (Canada para 1). Ever since late 2010, the horn of Eastern Africa has had to deal with a major food crisis (Loewenberg 17). The food crisis began with a drought which lead to very little food and water sources (Martin 23). Somalia people fled to Kenya and Djibouti; for that reason, the refugee camps became crowded, unsanitary, and lead to many deaths (Martin 23). Thousands of unnecessary deaths occurred and millions of wasted dollars were spent because the world failed to take action on the early warnings of the aforementioned food crisis (Canada para 1). Countless children and pregnant women have no food and very little water because the responses are coming in, in small quantities and very late (Loewenberg 17). What began as a small food crisis is becoming famine across Africa (Loewenberg 17). Several wealthy donors have responded by sending some relief packages to the region; nevertheless, there is just simply not enough action being taken (Loewenberg 17). People would not want their family to be in these situations and have to be worried about surviving and living from day to day, yet the world lets these innocent people suffer (Martin 22). One is usually against other countries helping each other; however, in this situation the death of children and many families are on the line. The world needs to come together to stop the major food crisis in East Africa.
Although the food and resources sent to East Africa were late, they can still make a huge difference and help end this food crisis (Loewenberg 17). For instance, China had sent rice, wheat, flour, and cooking oils to help end the food crisis; furthermore, China has help...
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Niger has faced persistent food insecurity for quite some time. Their increasing food crisis has only been worsened by their climate change, desertification, and population growth.
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According to a few world hunger organizations, the five main causes of hunger in the third world are natural disasters, war, the poverty trap, agricultural infrastructure and over-exploitation of resources. Natural disasters such as droughts, floods and storms cause crops to be destroyed or peop...
The fact that Sierra Leone is highly vulnerable to natural disasters is of a larger concern because they do not have the proper means of dealing with them. In more developed countries like our own for example, although we are at risk for major disasters as evident by this current hurricane season, we have the appropriate means to prepare and handle the situations before and when they occur. This reflects the government of Sierra Leone and its inability to have procedural plans in place as well as systems to help cope and assist with those needing support. This also reflects the poor infrastructure and city planning of the affected areas. While the immediate concern is getting help and relief to the areas directly affected by the disaster, another
In response to the recent failure of the international community to prevent the famine crisis in the Horn of Africa since July 2011, Suzanne Dvorak the chief executive of Save the Children wrote that, “We need to provide help now. But we cannot forget that these children are wasting away in a disaster that we could - and should - have prevented” she added, “The UN estimates that every $1 spent in prevention saves $7 in emergency spending.” (Dvorak, 2011).
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The world should be pulling their resources together because the way the drought is affecting the Eastern Africa’s people is killing them. Reasonable one can not live in conditions where there is minimal food and water. People need to get their basic needs to survive and Eastern Africa is far from the ideal place to do so due to drought. The Eastern Africa people have limited crops which are mostly failing due to lack of water, little cattle herds due to the hot conditions and poor ground to feed on ,while the rest of the world has the resources to provide large-scale relief (Stewart, 2011). This is a big issue because on a global scale we are letting Eastern Africa’s people suffer when there is no need of it. The drought in Eastern Africa is causing many conflicts and death due to lack of food and water.
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Nevertheless, it is argued that food aid as alternative strategy of food supply has some drawbacks and minimal impact on development: food aid is generally subject to high cost of procurement (including high storage, transport and distribution costs) and poor targeting (Jayne et al., 2001, Francken et al., 2012). More importantly, food aid might become a source of food insecurity as it may create disincentives for domestic production through the low price competitiveness of domestic food commodities, leading to unfavorable public and private investment (Del Ninno et al., 2007). For all the reasons mentioned in this paragraph, macro indicators of trade openness, price transmission mechanisms, demographic change, political stability, climate variability are also pertinent as indicators of macro-level FNS
Growth in Africa is not enough for its people to grow, which is leading to poverty and hunger in Africa. Today Africa is one of the leading countries having poverty and economic problems. One half of the Africans live below the poverty line which leads to low human development in Africa. The main cause of poverty in Africa is a problem in its economic system and environmental factors. Because of poverty people of Africa remain hungry as they don’t have enough money to buy their food and their basic needs. Some of the African countries have less poverty rate than others due to good government and economic system in those countries. Most of the African is facing challenges to survive and keep their family healthy.
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