CAUSES OF THE WORLD'S HUNGER

Hunger is a complex problem throughout the world. The world’s hunger kills many people every year. Every 3.6s there is one person die of hunger. One in nearly 7 people is going to hungry, one in three children is underweight. What causes the world hunger? The natural disasters, the wars and the overgrowth of the world’s population are three mains causes lead to the world’s hunger.

The most serious cause lead to the world’s hunger is the overgrowth of the world’s population.  According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the world’s population is expected to grow from 5.5 billion to 8 billion in 2020. More than 93 percent of this increase will happen in developing countries where people are very poor. For example, Nigeria- a developing country in Africa, the population is over 150 million people, Nigeria become one of the poorest country all over the world. They do not have enough food even clean water; number of starving people is higher and higher.  In fact, not only lower-income countries have hungry people but also developed ones. In some rich and powerful countries such as the USA or the United Kingdom, still have starving people walking along streets everyday. The world’s population is creasing; however, our land cannot be widened any more. There is only 10 percent land good for planting trees; another 20 percent is suitable for raising animals. The enormous mount of population and the limited sand lead to the serious lack of food. Food shortages and the huge of population make people hungrier.

Another cause is that wars do not only kill people directly but also kill them by causing the world’s hunger. Wars plunder many things from people even their life; however, wars still exist. A lot of conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine… affect to all life’s aspects. For instance, the war between Russia and Afghanistan had more than 8 thousand people die, 50 schools, and 34 hospitals were destroyed completely, a lot of roads were out of ordered, food producing and transportation was postponed. As a result, thousands of people die not only because of the consequence of war but also shortage of food. Wars destroy everything: houses, schools, roads, buildings, food, goods even people’s life. This causes a lot of negative effects to people life in physical and mental. All food producing is canceled; labors are deficient due to many people die. Moreover, many people whose relations die cannot concentrate on their work in a long time. In these conflicts, the poorer and weaker countries become the losers they have to receive all bad effects. Everything is destroyed, as a result, people is poorer and poorer, hungrier and hungrier. Average each developing country spends about over 100 billion dollars per year on military. With this enormous money for equipment weapons, we can use it by food to improve people’s living standard. It is a good way to decrease the rate of hungry people. I wonder if there was no war, people would live in a peaceful life and they could focus on producing food, there wouldn’t have starving people.

Last but not last cause, natural disasters damage all the crops and threaten people’s life day by day. Natural disasters such as: tsunami, floods, earthquakes and tropical storms occur every year with frequency and risk level higher.  Sometimes, the weather is so hot and dry that creates the negative effect to the crops. People do not have good condition for agriculture so they do not have enough food for themselves and their families. Sometimes, it rains so much or long time there is no rain… The erratic weather causes bad affect to people. People do not know exactly time to grow or rise. In the North of Viet Nam, people are going to harvest rice, but a storm lands and carries away everything on the field even houses and people life.  People who survive after that storm do not have anything to eat and they become starving people. Every year, a lot of tropical storm land into the shore. They carry away all houses, foods, vegetables animals and people. As a result, many people become homeless, children become orphans and they do not have food to eat. These natural disasters become more dangerous and powerful cause the world’s hunger more serious than ever.

The world’s hunger is the most complicated problem not only in poor countries but also all over the world. We all know that the solution for this cause can make a new one so our responsibility is not just in one day or one month. We even have to spend all life for this problem however we must recognize that: “if you cannot feed a hundred people, then just feed one”.