World Food Shortage
We Can Solve the World Food Shortage Problem in Our Lifetime.Most of us college students don't have to worry about hunger too much but the fact is hunger is a big problem in the world today. One person in every five is chronically hungry and 35,000 people die everyday of hunger." The worst earthquake in modern history--in China in 1976--killed 242,000 people. Hunger kills that many people every seven days"(1. Praeger). Many reasons cause hunger such as transportation, population growth and land shortage. There are also many possible solutions to these problems. The world has a limited supply of irritable land in which to produce food. "If the irritable land was distributed to everyone in the world equally, everyone would only get a football field sized portion of land" (2. video notes). Better irrigation methods could control this problem.
Today we produce about enough food to feed everyone. and Canada have up to half of the food in the world (3. The Chinese government encouraged couples to sign pledges to have only one baby in return for benefits. This is not necessary anymore due to the low infant death rate. However poor countries don't have the technology to increase production. By 1982 some 37% of eligible couples had signed the pledge, helping to bring the fertility rate down from 6. Storage is a problem because the food often spoils before it can even reaches the hungry mouths. New technologies of the agricultural powers can be given to countries that lack this technology. ReVelle)The food shortage problem in the world can be solved in our lifetime. The 2 major ways to solve this problem are to increase food supply and stabilize population. The problem is distributing the food evenly. Population is grower faster then food can be produced to feed them. Publicizing birth control methods, wars and abortion are other ways of reducing population.
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