There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, yet people go hungry. It doesn't seem fair that you and I can satisfy all of our hunger demands quite easily, while millions go hungry every day. Why can't we give surplus food to those in need? Because he problem just isn't that simple. Hunger is only not being able to get the required amount of food, undernourished, but it is also not getting the right kinds of food, malnutrition. Hunger can be long term, due to a poor economy, or hunger can be short term, due to poor harvest, war, or natural disaster.

Hunger occurs all around the world, but is more of a problem in some regions that others. The world is divided into two parts. The southern part consists or poor countries with a low standard of living and countries north of the divide are the opposite. Although people north of the divide may have short periods of hunger, there are always charity funds to fall back on. People south of the divide don't have these organizations, and therefore their hunger is more of a permanent state. Australia, North America, and Europe are all north of the divide and all eat enough or more to fill their daily needs. So

Ninety nine percent of the world's food comes from the land. Many problems have arisen as a result of our attempts to expand food production. The destruction of forests, overgrazing of land, soil erosion, chemical contamination of soil and changing from diversity to monoculture. Food production is leveling off, but our production methods are also depleting available land.

As countries become wealthier, dietary patterns change. Wealthier countries tend to eat more meat, but an incredible amount of grain is needed to produce meat. Two and a half kilograms of grain is needed to produce one kilogram of chicken, four kilograms of grain are needed to produce one kilogram of pork and seven kilograms of grain are needed to produce one kilogram of beef. Because so much grain is needed to produce the meat consumed by wealthier countries, the poor are having grain taken that could be used to feed themselves. Enough grain is grown in the world to provide every single person in the world with around one kilogram every day, and this doesn't include other foods such as beans, potatoes and other fruits and vegetables. Fifty percent of the world's cereal production dens up as animal food.

In India, there are 300 million people every day. India produces enough food to feed all of its population but the food is not distributed properly. Those who can afford to buy food, and the rest is exported. While in India the food is not distributed properly, in some countries the land is not distributed properly. In Brazil, access to land and wealth is reserved for an elite few families. In the past the poor worked as laborers, or they rented a small plot of land. But the use of technology and multinational owners had forced small farmers into city slums or to take on the challenge of, finding new areas to farm. The cleared land is only productive for a maximum of three years.

Hunger has many effects on the world. It lowers life expectancies because people do not have an adequate diet. Because populations are increasing the most in developing countries, there is not enough money and food to feed everyone. Large corporations produce cash crops in poor countries and employ poverty-stricken people to work there. The world does produces enough food but it is not distributed equally among the rich and poor. The rich who make up 20% of the world population have 85% of the world wealth. The poor make up 20% and have 1.4% of the world's wealth. While the other 60% fall into the middle category with only 14% of the world wealth. I conclude that it all comes down to the fact that food is NOT distributed equally or fairly.

Population is an issue in relation to world hunger because as populations rise, people need places to live.

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