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Ensuring Food Security - Coggle Diagram
Ensuring Food Security
Political
Infrastructure
Poor infrastructure disincentivizes foreign investment by making operating costs for companies high - Times
Nationalism of companies and the economy, reduces foreign investment - Times
When Zambia implemented more socialist systems, and the state started to manage and control everything, managers were elected based on tribalism and nepotism, rather than merit - Times
Corruption
There's a trend of African Countries becoming extremely rich from mining, but not investing into more longterm avenues of generating wealth - Times
Corrupt politicians often have enough money to fix their countries' problems, but they're too greedy to contribute to the people - Times
Social
Colonization
Colonization has had long-lasting effects on African countries' cultural and economic functions. The economies of colonized countries were engineered to benefit the colonizers rather than the respective countries- Times
Slavery has devastated African culture and prejudices and racism is still prevalent in many African countries - FairPlanet
Geographic
Diseases: Aids has limited the population growth in many African countries, and resources that could've gone to food security instead to to Aids relief - Times
Environmental
El Nino: Elevated temperatures in The Equatorial Pacific cause storms in some areas, and severe droughts in others - Times
Flooding can destroy crops, and drought can make land irritable - Hungry Planet
Mining leads to toxic materials such as arsenic mercury and cyanide leeching into water in the surrounding areas. In developed countries, there are methods used to remove these substances, but they don't exist in developing countries - Earth.org
Economic
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Poverty: In poverty stricken areas with no infrastructure, it's hard if at all possible to climb the socioeconomic ladder - Hungry Planet
War
Wars displace people and make it extremely hard for displaced people to find jobs - World Food Programme
Proxy wars brought in a lot of money for African militias in the Cold War, the end of the Cold War shocked the African economy - Times
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