Proposal statement
Food is a requirement of living organisms in order to sustain life as well as provide nourishment. However, not everybody has access to food due to un-foreseen circumstances that put individuals in need of food aid. These circumstances can be either man-made such as over farming or natural for example drought. In conducting this research, evidence will show some current solutions of providing food aid in Kenya as well as understanding what the future potential developments are.
Research topic: Food aid in Kenya: a problem or solution?
Research question: Is food aid a sustainable strategy to solving the food crisis in Kenya?
Thesis: Providing food aid to Kenya is good as long as it is well distributed. However this country also requires financial aid with which it will /can assist in developing new forms of farming that will increase the food production. Therefore it is not a matter of giving more food aid, it is a matter of making Kenya self reliant.
In my research topic I hope to find answers to the following questions
1. What type of food is provided as food aid?
2. How often does this provision occur?
3 .What countries provide this food aid?
4. Will making Kenya self reliant work?
Research methods
My research methods will include finding supporting evidence through reading newspapers online and offline, journals and books. Since food aid is a topic that has been written about by other authors I will reference those or their studies within my paper then analyse the data by comparing the evidence and formulating a conclusion based on research collected.
Why this study
Currently, there are research projects portraying how agricultural developments are assisting in increasing ...
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...culture, rural development, land, desertification and drought. (2008): 3, 19 and 21.
The article has various segments that contribute to different aspects about food such as difficulties in growing varieties of crops, agricultural development, organic agriculture and other environmental issues that affect crop yield.
Walingo, Mary. 2006. "The Role of Education in Agricultural Projects for Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Kenya." International Review of Education 52, no. 3 / 4 (2006): 287-304.
The article talks about the benefits of educating individuals on agricultural development. The main focus of the article is on dairy production in the rural areas. Since rural farmers seem to be the most relied upon individuals for food provision in the country, this article shows how agricultural education will/already affects both rural and urban areas.
Kenya is in a malnourished area, so the farmers should sell their produce more locally for better improvements
There is so much that goes into helping people in the most effective and efficient manner. I have learned that you have to expand your knowledge in every aspect of the developing country, and you have to focus on the issue that you are trying to tackle. We also have discussed in class about the corruption of people especially ones that hold power or ones that want power. And Jacqueline challenges that issue. For instance, the government maybe taking gains for itself and not for the people that it is meant to be for. Such as financial aids that might go straight to the governments instead for the people that need the aid. She also challenges the system of agricultural department in the sense that people that make the policies or distribute the money don’t take the culture of the area such as implementing polices for men even though the main workers in farming are women. And the fact that the farmers don’t have adequate resources from the government or financial support. In class, we talked about government failures in the agriculture sectors such as proper policies, market boards, and the big bias towards agriculture. The government has no system set up to lend money or help the
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).
...ecause of frequently happened famines in the past. There some problems with politics of country. But there is one of the plenty solutions in the world. It is solution called “A worldwide mission to feed and educate”. It is very well planned and strategically right solution. Because by feeding people who are under starvation conditions will be satisfied and problem of real time will be solved. On the other hand by education for people who are in poverty and not able to pay for education can be solved another problem, which is waiting in the future like unemployment. If give good education to people in poverty in their motherlands they will work hard and become very good workers anywhere in social working, office working etc. And good workers will be the reason of economics rising and reducing the poverty level consequently hunger, famine, starvation and malnutrition.
In the first world there are 9 million people suffering from hunger. In Canada, the HungerCount survey, organized by Food Banks Canada, counted the number of people using food banks and analysed their living conditions. The hunger issue in Canada has to do with poverty. Only 6% of food bank users own their own home. Even with social assistance, which over 50% of food bank users are receiving as their main source of income, these people cannot meet their basic needs. Child hunger is also an issue in Canada, where 37% of food bank users are children. When a household’s income is too low, the children suffer. Many parents don’t have the time to take care of their children and work at the same time. Although these facts are about Canada, there are the similar issues facing people all over the first world.
World Food Programme. (2013). Comprehensive food security and vulnerability analysis (CFSVA): Uganda. Retrieved from http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp256989.pdf
Worldwide, 870 million people — about one in eight— are hungry. That is nearly three times the population of the United States. It is hard to imagine in the modern world that a country cannot feed its people, but in 1984, the Ethiopian Famine took over one million lives. There were many causes that contributed to the complications faced in Ethiopia. These problems received major attention in the global Community. The famine drastically changed people’s lives because of the lack of food and resources and affected Ethiopia to our present day.
In this world there are many different types of challenges faced but individuals in different countries, as people work together to find a way to stop or solve these challenges there are also some challenges or situations that individuals, even as a group, cannot eliminate. The race to reach conclusions of situations is very desirable and is being worked on very efficiently, but one issue that people have mistaken into accomplishing is hunger. Hungry is present everywhere and not a lot of people can satisfy or fulfil that need. Lack of sanitation, unemployment, and unhealthy diet choices these are involved in an imaginary line called the poverty line. The idea of food banks is a good start into eliminating hungry but the process still has a
In conclusion, fighting food insecurity and poor nutrition among low income families, particularly in developing countries, is a complex task. It requires many different strategies as there are many factors influencing hunger and why it occurs. The three strategies chosen are effective on their own, but implemented together will address many more of the determinants causing this issue. The World Food Programmes strategy is a quick fix when solving this problem and is not sustainable, but alongside Oxfam and MicroLoans strategies, they would all make an extremely positive change in how food insecurity looks today.
Some of the serious environmental tribulations related to food production and consumption consist of “climate change, water pollution, water scarcity, soil degradation, eutrophic...
...earch and extension, rural infrastructure, and market access for small farmers. Rural investments have been sorely neglected in recent decades, and now is the time to reverse this trend. Farmers in many developing countries are operating in an environment of inadequate infrastructure like roads, electricity, and communications; poor soils; lack of storage and processing capacity; and little or no access to agricultural technologies that could increase their profits and improve their livelihoods. Recent unrest over food prices in a number of countries may tempt policymakers to put the interests of urban consumers over those of rural people, including farmers, but this approach would be shortsighted and counterproductive. Given the scale of investment needed, aid donors should also expand development assistance to agriculture, rural services, and science and technology.
As agriculture has become more intensive, farmers have become capable of producing higher yields using less labour and less land. Growth of the agriculture has not, however, been an unmixed blessing. It, like every other thing, has its pros and cons. Topsoil depletion, groundwater contamination, the decline of family farms, continued neglect of the living and working conditions for farm labourers, increasing costs of production, and the disintegration of economic and social conditions in rural communities. These are the cons of the new improved agriculture.
Agricultural education can be perceived as “the profession that teaches farming”. However this is far from the truth. This young discipline is much more than sows, cows, and plows. Agricultural education, as I mentioned earlier, is a younger
To understand why is agriculture important in the world of today, then first of all we must know what agriculture is? Agriculture is the basic material production of society, the use of land for agriculture and livestock, mining plants and animals as raw materials and labor to produce mainly food and some raw materials for industry. Agriculture is a major industry, covering many disciplines: planting, breeding and processing of agricultural products; in the broadest sense, also including forestry and fisheries. Agriculture is an important economic sector in the economy of many countries, especially in the past century , when the industry has not yet developed. Since the dawn of history, agriculture has been one of the importance means of producing
It requires little to no education. As a result agriculture employs many people contributing to nations economic development. Residents can also sell what they grow, providing them with a source of income, thus not only raising the national income level but the standard of living as well. Agriculture is not only a ... ... middle of paper ... ...