Global problems: hunger

Everybody knows that food is a source of energy and life. We can't live and work without eating food. The right to food is a human right derived from the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICE SCR) ,recognizing the" right to an adequate standard of living, including adequate food", as well as the "fundamental right to be free from hunger.”

Unfortunately, hunger becomes a significant international problem. UNO and IHO(United Nations Organization and International Health Organization) experts wait the global food crisis in the nearest future.

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion
live on less than $1 per day.

Every year 15 million children die of hunger

 The world hunger problem: facts and figures.The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger.

In the coming decades 25 % of the total population of the Earth may become hungry as the growth of global population exceeds the growth of food production. In the next 30 years the population is expected to double, about 9 billion people will live on the Earth in 2040.

World food production is determined by the reduction of the plowing land, the aggravation of the ecological situation in the world. From 1998 - 2030 the increase in food products will be 9 million tons per year compared with 30 million tons per year in 1950-1985.

In the next 30 years the population is expected to double, about 9 billion people will live on the Earth in 2040.
The food deficit will be made up of 526 million tons of grain, 40 million tons of meat and 68 million tons of sea products in 2030.

The reduction of food production will have a great effect on international trade. Food prices will increase. As a result, the producers will have to substitute high-quality organic foodstuffs by more cheaper "unhealthy" food, comprising dangerous additives or genetically modifying products.
The present situation requires global consideration and participation of all countries in the search for a way out of the approaching crisis.

We found at least six solutions:
1 World debt cancellation
52 of the world's poorest countries (of which 37 are in Africa) owe a total of $376 billion in debt. To cancel this big amount of money means to help these poor countries in solving their hunger problems.

The problem lies in the distribution of the world's food. The majority of food is produced in economically more developed countries such as USA, but not those countries that are really in need.

The way to solve the problem of distribution is to encourage national governments and state departments to subsidize the purchase of food by less economically developed countries. In this way, the less economically developed countries are able to increase their food supplies.

The problem of war also diverts much needed government funds from helping to solve their hunger problems to funding arms and the war process. Consequently, there is little money to fund equipment and technology to increase food supplies, or to afford imports of food from abroad.
Peace negotiations help to allow the poor countries to focus their time and resources onto solving their hunger problems. War is an unneeded, resource wasting activity .

People can be educated about how to use new technologies and farming machinery more efficiently or how to work in factories. These aspects of education, not only help the person to get money, but also help to develop the economy of the country.

Technological progress hasn't reached its limits and we still need for new technologies to be developed.
An excellent example is Biotechnology - this technology is still in development. It makes crops resistant to diseases and parasites .

Scientists must think of new safe methods of agricultural engineering, new foods, biological products and food substitutes.
Some Dutch scientist (Arnold Van Haze) offer to use insects instead of meat. Japanese scientists have already suggested the menu, consisting of insects for cosmonauts.

The help of international community will be effective in stopping the violence, and starting to solve the problem of hunger and the problems closely connected with it.

environmental pollution
climate changes
natural disasters
man-made disasters
reduction of natural resources

 
In our turn, we, the citizens of a hero-city, which remembers the 900 days of siege, ask you to remember that the problem of hunger can concern everybody!