Solving world hunger seems impossible due to limited arable land and increasing population, but new food technologies and political improvements can help. Solutions include developing new ways to grow food, improving food distribution, and creating new agricultural technologies. However, solving world hunger permanently requires the unified efforts of agricultural experts and world leaders.
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 problem of world hunger. Since the world has a finite amount of arable land and a seemingly endless 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 eliminate world hunger would be to develop new ways to grow food on a global scale. Many people today live in areas of the world that have never been able to produce sufficient food crops or are nearly impossible to irrigate. Some arable land remains underutilized because it is under the control of rogue governments or is currently too inaccessible for agriculture. By developing new methods to maximize crop growth on poor soil, the villagers can grow enough food to meet their needs.
Another way to solve world hunger would be to improve food distribution infrastructure. A number of first world countries have huge surpluses of staple crops and grains, especially wheat, rice and corn. These stocks are replenished regularly through subsidized agriculture. The problem is that poorer countries that could benefit from these surpluses are often controlled by hostile governments that reject food offers or essentially hold the food hostage at vital points of distribution.
If relief agencies and government services had better means of adequate food distribution, the delivery of surplus food to famine-stricken areas would go a long way towards solving the problem of world hunger. Encouraging the populations of the poorest countries to move towards sustainable sources of food would also solve world hunger, but this has proved difficult for sociological, religious and logistical reasons.
The creation of new agricultural technologies could also help solve world hunger. If food can be grown on large hydroponic farms, for example, there would be less effort involved in traditional soil farms. Farmers in poorer countries could be trained to rotate crops to keep the soil healthier season after season. Better seeds with higher yields or resistance to insects or weather damage could help farmers grow more usable crops on the same amount of arable land. A renewed emphasis on farming 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 will always remain as long as the world’s population continues to be substantially greater than the amount of food farmers can produce. Large-scale efforts to control population growth have proved extremely unpopular and nearly impossible to implement. Many organizations such as UNICEF have dedicated themselves to the eradication of world hunger and famine, but the only way to eradicate hunger permanently would involve the unified efforts of thousands of agricultural experts and substantial amounts of money and material support from hundreds of world leaders.
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