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WHAT CAUSES HUNGER ACROSS THE WORLD :question: - Coggle Diagram
WHAT CAUSES HUNGER ACROSS THE WORLD :question:
POVERTY
When those families are undernourished, they have a hard time working to earn money, which means they are unable to earn money to buy sustainable foods.
Over 700 million people around the world are living in poverty today, meaning 700 million people are probably wondering how they will be able to afford their next meals.
Families stuck in poverty cannot afford to buy nutritious foods, which leads to malnourishment.
FOOD SHORTAGES
When food runs out, people are forced to skip one meal or more as they wait fro their next harvest or import of food.
Some regions do not have the prime environments to sustain crops, so not enough food can be produced to supply everyone.
Some regions endure "hunger seasons" where the food from their previous harvests is exhausted, but the next harvest is yet to come, so they are left without food.
Nationwide food shortages
WAR & CONFLICT
Inflation rates can increase, making it unaffordable to import foods.
War can also cause damage to infrastructures, meaning tools and equipment to access food are out of use.
Civil war led to displacement and abandoned fields resulting in crop failure in South Sudan.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Extreme climate changes are seen to effect the poorest regions in the world the most, and it has the power to push over 100 million people into poverty in the next year.
The high pollution rates that play a part in causing climate change can reduce plants' protein, zinc, and iron content, leaving produce less nutritious.
When there is too little OR too much rainfall, harvests can be destroyed and the amount or quality of available livestock pasture can be reduced.
Is the climate crisis causing a hunger crisis?
POOR NUTRITION
Proper nutrition reduces the likelihood of disease, poor health, and cognitive impairment.
Not being knowledgable about what foods are nutritious or not is also a factor that cause take part in causing malnutrition.
Families living in poverty often rely on just one or two staple foods (like corn or wheat), which means they are not getting enough critical macronutrients and vitamins, and may still suffer the effects of hunger.
POOR PUBLIC POLICY
Low investment in agriculture where it is not seen as important enough or money just cannot be put towards agriculture
Water supply that does not effectively reach plants and animals
Poor infrastructure that cannot support growing food.
POOR ECONOMY
High unemployment rates among low-income populations make it more difficult to meet basic household food needs.
For example, Liberia's overall economic troubles deepened after the Ebola outbreak on 2014
Working towards economic stability overall will have a ripple effects on other causes of world hunger.
FOOD WASTE
Producing wasted food uses other natural resources that, when threatened, have a ripple effect in the countries that are already hit hardest by hunger, poverty, and climate change.
Producing wastes food requires an amount of water equal to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River and adds 3.3 billion tons of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere, when those resources could be used elsewhere.
One-third of all food produced (over 1.3 billion tons) is never even consumed.
GENDER INEQUALITY
Women and girls account for 70% of all people currently in urgent need of food assistance.
A number of patriarchal practices leave women more likely to go hungry than men. If food is in short supply, many women will reduce the amount of food they eat or skip meals entirely to ensure that their partners and children have enough.
Female farmers are responsible for growing, harvesting, preparing, and selling the majority of food in poor countries.
FORCED MIGRATION
Many refugees living abroad live in neighboring countries who have limited resources to begin with.
These refugee populations face significant challenges to access food, employment, and healthcare, putting them at a higher risk of hunger.
Famine can cause forced migration, just as forced migration can also cause famine.
