world hunger problem and solutions
I think that the first thing that needs to be done to help combat world hunger is education. People in developed countries need to realize that hunger is a problem. As they always say, acceptance is the first step. However, this obviously won't be fixing any problems. But I think first is to devise a way to limit our waste. We currently have so much food that is just thrown away. It's inevitablethat not all food will be saved: some will be thrown away, but if we could utilize more of this food into compost, it would be better for our environment and would contribute to making healthy food for the future. Stores and restaurants that have too much food at the end of the day should donate food to local shelters. While this won't fix global problems, it will help local problems. I think that we also need change in our farming legislation. We currently have so many subsidies on corn and the like (ironic I dislike, I know, considering I'm from Iowa!) that it becomes cheaper to use it not only for sweeteners that are bad for us (like high fructose corn syrup), but it also makes us want to give food aid from our own country instead of helping other countries create their own sustainable agriculture. These are things that predominately focus on the local solutions for people here, in various developed nations. For international needs, I believe that we need to work on sustainable agriculture. I once went to a World Affairs Seminar on World Hunger, and there we heard from a man called Will Allen. Mr. Allen received a MacArthur Genius Award for his studies of soil. He is using natural, sustainable measures to make soil healthier, which in turn grows better, more nutritious food. He has made several sustainable "plants" of sorts (greenhouse like things) to help create and distribute this soil, and the results have been amazing. So it's not that these places can't make the foods they need to survive, merely that because of past techniques, deforestation, etc, the soil is