Name : Jarald Wong Lip Yi Class : 5 Kappa I/C : 950809-10-5755 Topic : Food crisis, how do we overcome it?

While the quest to solve world hunger permanently may be considered a pipe dream, there are things individuals and governments can do to address the current world hunger problem. Because the world has a finite amount of farmable land and a seemingly infinite new supply of inhabitants who will need to eat, solving world hunger often seems like an insurmountable challenge. However, new food technologies and improvements in the political climate can go a long way towards ending mass starvation and famine.

One way to solve world hunger would be to develop new ways to grow food on a worldwide scale. Many people today live in areas of the world which were never capable of producing sufficient food crops or are nearly impossible to irrigate. Some arable land remains underused because it is under the control of rogue governments or is currently too inaccessible for farming. By developing new methods for maximizing crop growth on substandard land, inhabitants can grow enough food to meet their needs.

Another way to solve world hunger would be to improve the food distribution infrastructure. A number of first-world countries have massive surpluses of staple crops and grains, especially wheat, rice and corn. These

stockpiles are replenished regularly through subsidized farming. The problem is that poorer countries which could benefit from these surpluses are often controlled by hostile governments which either refuse offers of food or essentially hold the food hostage at vital distribution points.

If relief agencies and government services had better means for proper food distribution, the delivery of surplus food to famine-stricken areas would go a long way towards solving the problem of world hunger. Encouraging populations of poorer countries to move closer to sustainable sources of food would also solve world hunger, but this has proven to be difficult for sociological, religious and logistical reasons.

Creating new farming technologies could also help solve world hunger. If food can be grown in large hydroponic farms, for example, there would less strain put on traditional soil farms. Farmers in poorer countries could be trained to rotate their crops in order to keep the soil healthier season after season. Better seeds with higher yields or resistance to insect or weather damage could help farmers grow more usable crops on the same amount of arable land. A renewed emphasis on agriculture as a career could also encourage more young people to start their own farms and produce more food for others.

The problem of world hunger is always going to remain as long as the world population continues to be substantially higher than the amount of food that

farmers are able to produce. Large scale efforts to control population growth have proven to be extremely unpopular and nearly impossible to enforce. Many organizations such as UNICEF have dedicated themselves to the eradication of world hunger and famine, but the only way to solve world hunger permanently would involve the unified efforts of thousands of agricultural experts and significant amounts of money and material support from hundreds of world leaders. The people of the world have to be allowed to grow hemp. It provides everything that's needed -- it even replenishes the soil. It is a gift from our creator. It is not a drug so why make it illegal? It is obvious to me that the powers that be are letting people die for the sake of their own profit. It is an absolute travesty. Send all the people who are lazy to an island and see how fast they will look for food, and not die of hunger. Send all the people who are lazy to an island and see how fast they will look for food, and not die of hunger. Grains and cereals are distributed in bags that weigh 40, 50, 60 pounds and more. They are too heavy for the starving victims of famine to lift, even one at a time, and are typically delivered to seaports where they fall under the control of the people responsible for the famine. But we doubt any but the policy makers who live in that world would like it much. Part of the world hunger problem isn't just climate, it's also poverty. you don't have money, you can't buy food. If you can't buy food you can't eat and if you don't eat, you die. If we grow hemp the seeds don't contain any THC and they have protein and many other nutrients and we could harvest hundreds of

thousands of seeds every two months easily. The potato is the most nutritious and versatile food that can be cultivated in the world. One potato berry can yield up to one row three acres long, producing 10,000 pounds of edible tubers. I believe there is a chance to put an end to world hunger if money grabbing governments stepped aside in their designer suits and limos and let the real help begin. Sure, charity organizations are okay but they too, are no better then the big corporations around the world. They take private money and really haven't done jack with it. My father and I can grow blight resistant potatoes organically with no pesticides in the deserts of California (Mojave). The fact is the money given to charitable organizations have not dented the problem of world hunger and the U.N. gets more powerful from the money the United States gives to help to aid Third World nations.

Conclusion, there are solutions and very simple ones at that. The fact is politics, money and the need to feel good about yourself gets in the way of solving problems. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. You know the rest.