World Hunger

Today our society is growing. The numbers of people are growing more in developing countries versus developed countries as the United States. As we grow in numbers, this brings about hunger and poverty in the world. One might ask how this is an environmental problem. Well it is a problem because of our population we build more buildings, parking lots, houses, etc, and we also use more land for crops and agriculture. Our food supply is not adding up to the high demand of our population.

            In develop countries as the United States, there is a huge amount of waste or over eating that leads to diseases and obesity, while undeveloped or developing countries have malnutrition and starvation. According to Anup Shah, food scarcity part of the problem in the population debate is an interesting one however, people are hungry not because the population is growing so fast that food is becoming scarce, but because people cannot afford it. Food may be scarce, but it is international trade, economic policies and the control of land that have lead to immense poverty and hunger and therefore less access to food, not food scarcity due to over population (Shah 2010, World Hunger and Poverty).

            Agriculture plays an important role in helping the problem if world hunger. The use of agricultural biotechnology is promising to help with the problem, but the climates are often unfriendly for producing agricultural products effectively. Agricultural biotechnology is simply a science that includes modifying organisms by manipulating, replacing or removing genes (Strickland, How Stuff Works). By modifying different organisms and the process of biotechnology in agriculture, more food can be produce.

            World hunger continues to be a problem that exists in our society and has brought about many debates on how to correct the problem and also why the problem continues to exists. Many people go to bed hungry everyday and this is a problem that is killing millions of people.

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty
http://dreamer.me/world-hunger
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/Y5160E/y5160e07.htm
Strickland, Jonathan http://.science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/genetic/agricultural-biotechnology.htm

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/dec2003/hung-d19.shtml