Essay On World Hunger

World Hunger is something that does not come across the minds of many, for the majority of the population on Earth is well fed, while the remaining billion to 841 million people have fallen victim to starvation (2013 world). World Hunger should be stopped, because it is a serious problem that involves the world in varying factors such as trade, foreign relations, and demographics. However, ending World Hunger comes with many costs and sacrifices that the savior must endure themselves. Since the most dramatic increase in the human population during the industrial age, modern technologies, wars and foreign trade have changed rapidly, leaving behind countries that are not strong enough as a whole to move forward along with the rest of the world. Yet the human population continues to grow ever so rapidly, exceeding far beyond the carrying capacity that planet Earth can provide. Scientists estimate that between 2000 and 2025, the world population will become 7.8 billion, approximately double of what it was in 1974. As resources quickly begin to dwindle, and wars break out over precious materials, World Hunger continues to grow stronger by the day, eating up the excess people that Earth cannot resourcefully maintain.

World Hunger is caused by many various factors ranging from famine, war, economic disasters and global warming. An example of a famine that changed an entire country because of its hungry inhabitants can be the Irish potato famine in 1879, which caused the majority of the population to migrate to the United States. World Hunger can happen anywhere, even in areas where the general population is well fed. Each year, 87,000 homeless people die from hunger. World Hunger also varies upon ...

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...oal of agriculture must be to achieve sustainable food production in any location. This requires the development of farming methods that do not damage soils, eliminate water supplies, cause extinction of wild relatives of crops or of potential new food species, or lead to permanent pollution downstream. The world as a whole is moving from demand-based to resource-based agriculture.

Many environmentalists also question the idea of whether to continue aiding starving countries with food. Some are worried that the countries will become dependent on the supply of food, others want the supplies to serve as a support for starving countries to develop their own methods of attaining necessary food production methods. "Using resources more efficiently is what it will take to put agriculture on a path to feed the expected future population of nine billion people," (Messer)