Malcolm Chance

Jackson
MAWD 3A
October 14, 2019
Magazine Body Text
World hunger is something that has always been an issue and people have
always been trying to figure out ways to feed everyone on the Earth. Having proper
nourishment is one of the most important things for a human being. Here in America
most people are properly nourished or have food or have the ability through shelters
and places where they feed the homeless. In many places though people are not
getting enough food and it is hurting them immensely. There are about 821 million
people who are deemed chronically unnourished. We are making great steps though
because the number of people who aren’t getting enough food has nearly hafted in the
last two decades.
There is one big reason why people are not getting fed and that is because of
waste. As a world we produce enough food for everyone on the Earth to eat but a lot of
that food is wasted or lost which causes food to not be eaten by people that need it. The
amount of wasted food cost the global economy about 1 trillion dollars. There are
movements going on to help conserve more food. An example of that is the
#StoptheWaste campaign which is against the waste of food. In Egypt about a third of
all their grapes that they produce are lost through inefficient practices.
These Problems are very severe to the early health of children. Nutrition in a
child’s first 1,000 days are essential to prevent stunting and have a healthy
development. Not forgetting about adults and elderly but you could possibly focus more
on child nutrition because they may not be able to live if they are not given proper
nutrition in their early lives. This lack of nutrition may give them long term health issues
or even more which we don’t want to do. Nutrition is essential to everyone, but small
children are more vulnerable to the effects are malnutrition. Therefore, it would be good
to get them fed before people who are already developed and semi healthy.
There is also another issue which is the diversity of crops grown. There are about
12 main crops that are grown around the world. Some more crop diversity would allow
for more food if one crop were to have a bad yield so everyone wouldn’t go hungry.
About 60% of all calories are consumed form four main crops those are rice, wheat,
corn and soy. This is limiting the access of food which doesn’t help to feeding people
around the world. One of the biggest issues is that some countries don’t have the ability
to send there produce into the world food market because their food doesn’t meet the
global food market standards.
As a global community we are making great strides to decrease the amount of
hungry people. The problem is that there are so many people and places that don’t
have access to proper food that we won’t be able to reach them. We are starting to
decrease it though because we have at least halved the amount of hungry people in the
world. We are solving these problems through GMO’s because we are able to make
produce last longer. We are also have new ideas like to focus on children because they
are more vulnerable to malnutrition because they are growing and need proper nutrition.