Hunger, Current Problem

Hunger, current problem

Introduction

Sabf’s sub -the subthemes seemed very attractive, but even so and everything felt that there was something that did not coincide with the general theme "perspectives that bother". It seems key to being able to try the crossroads that present us the proposed themes, but nevertheless it seems to me that there are things that make much more noise, that are more difficult to speak, and that are issues that despite being problems ofin the past of humanity, these are issues that we could never elucidate. This issue that I want to refer to, which generates a lot of discomfort and is also linked to the proposed themes is hunger.

It is utopian and a delirium to think about solving such a problem, but seeing so many people suffering from the first question that arises to my mind is how do we allow this to happen? When are we going to stop giving partial solutions and we are going to think about deep changes? Maybe wish that there is no more hungry in the world, it’s just a dream. But you also have to take into account that the great feats of humanity began only with that, a dream. Julio Verne dreamed the world in which we live, with his wonderful novels almost 200 years ago, and he would probably never believed that many of his dreams were going to be everyday truths in the distant future. That is why I invite you to dream, for a future where there is no hunger. Who knows? Maybe one day humanity achieves it.

Present

Currently, this theme is not heard in world conferences as an important problem to discuss and yet to this day it is still a great difficulty for a good part of the world’s population, having the security and certainty that it will be able toHave enough and necessary foods not to starve.

To be more graphic, concise, and raw, in the half minute in which you have taken care of reading these 2 paragraphs of the essay, they will have already died from 8 to 10 hunger people. Precisely according to FAO data there are 821 million people suffering from hunger, that is, one in nine people. With these data thrown it could be said that hunger is evil, that more people suffer, and paradoxically it is one of the issues that is least promoted and less attention is given on social networks, media and the debates of world public opinion.

In these modern times our attention focuses on new needs that did not even exist 20, 10 or maybe 5 years. The constant stimuli, and bombings of information that come from multiple directions, cause it to be increasing. An average person spends approximately 2 hours of their day on social networks, most likely to meet new needs that our parents had not even been able to imagine that there would be. But are these new needs really essential? These needs arise spontaneously? Or are they created needs that respond to a certain interest of groups or corporations? How to make the data, such as those explained in the previous paragraphs, stop being simple numbers and become transcendent? How to make these inanimate and indifferent statistics compatible, with the reality they try to represent that it is so visceral and stark? How did you care much more to have a I like on Instagram, as a way to perform our personal ego, rather than perform our personal ego through the formation of organic and interpersonal solidarity ties? How does our social conscience move towards the virtual world, and not towards the material world, where many people are so lacking?

In spite of this, social networks as a countercara give enormous power to civil society by serving as great denunciation devices, and transparency. If social networks were used functionally for the fight against hunger, they could serve as great pressure springs so that this theme begins to appear on the agenda of the great statesmen. We have already witnessed cases in which ICTs have played key roles in protests and demands of the people, giving way to the transformation of societies, such as Arab spring in 2011.

Today it is very disturbing the reality that in the 21st century, despite all technological improvements and technical progress, innovations in communications and transport, advances in science and medicine, we have not yet found the form ofbe able to eradicate hunger. Even more disturbing, it is to see what one of the regions that records the largest economic growth rates of the last decade, such as Asia, is one of the regions where hunger is most suffered. Specifically between China and India, almost half of world malnutrition concentrate. How is this possible? How can it be that one of the first needs of the species, perhaps the most basic and primary of all, even in today’s world, can still not be satisfied by all human beings?

While it is worth mentioning that there have been enormous positive advances in the struggle for the elimination of hunger, the world landscape regarding the subject is far from throwing the results that were expected, and we are still far from reaching the ideal objectives and being able to reduce the problemto ninfimos levels.

Causes

The causes of hunger depend on multiple factors, and are very varied. Among them are:

• Social polarization: the extreme divisions of societies, are manifested in increasingly violent ways, generating latent conflicts that can even become armed conflicts. Wars cause the destruction of cultivation fields, irrigation and drinking water systems, infrastructure destruction such as roads and vital routes to transport food products, and structural destruction of facilities that allow food production such as, the mills, silos where food is stored, etc. It is vital to reduce social fractures that can become violent confrontations, for this it is necessarymake up the social universe
• Climate change and natural catastrophes: the most prone countries to suffer malnutrition in their inhabitants usually have agricultural economies, which depend strongly on climatic conditions. Climate change is aggravating the effects of droughts, and the consequence is that more and more harvests are lost. For this reason it is necessary to seek new ways to link with nature, become aware, and be responsible for the consequences caused by human activities in our ecosystem and environment.

Despite this, surprisingly the causes that cause the hunger of most people in the world, are not related to any of these exceptional situations. Of the 821 million hungry people in the world only 50 million are victims of these devastating phenomena. This means that most hungry in the world, has their cause in the economic and social order, which assigns resources inefficiently, causing many people not to even have the minimum capacity to be able to subsist. According to estimates from the World Food Program, 3 would need 3.2 billion dollars to give enough food to the 66 million children suffering from school age hunger. According to the IMF, the combined world nominal GDP of all countries in the world is 80 billion dollars. So, it is not that there is not enough money to solve the problem, but that money is not prioritized to allocate it to this fight. You have to ask ourselves who are the ones who hold most of the wealth? At the service of which objective the surpluses to play on the world economy board are placed?

Given this diagnosis, the variable that acquires explanatory force to understand the large number of hungry that continues in the world, ends up being the unequal distribution of wealth, and the bad mechanisms that exist so that this is achieved. Political instability and institutional weakness suffered by most developing countries are problems that are inherent to most political organization systems, and end up generating problems that become endemic and structural. The lack of control and regulations, the lack of infrastructure, the lack of clear and concrete norms that generate an effective allocation of resources, the lack of capacity to manage and administer the public treasury, are all issues that threaten decision -makingFor the fight against malnutrition. It is necessary to find a way to articulate a system, which promotes effective governance that delineates clear rules about how the processes of creation, accumulation, reproduction and distribution of riches will be like, which seeks to reduce the great gaps in terms of the patrimonial wealth that existsAmong the poorest and richest individuals. It is undeniable that wealth is increasing. For this reason, the design of new mechanisms that allow a more logical and fair distribution of the wealth of the world becomes evident.

conclusion

To create social systems that promote sustainable, genuine and long -term development for the future, it is necessary to review the behaviors and actions that have led us to have so much poor people in the world. Hunger not only causes death, but it is also cause and consequence, and features in a vicious circle with many other serious problems such as marginality, poverty, vulnerability, lack of opportunities, inequality and violence. If we want to achieve the basis for cementing a sustainable development project it is essential? How to provide greater opportunities for people to get out of poverty situations? How to get education to reach unprotected sectors? How to distribute world income more equitable?

If tomorrow we can answer these questions in a coherent and solid way, we will probably be closer to solving a millenary problem, and therefore, when this is closer, we will be closer to solving many more inconveniences that are concatenated to the same.