The Right to Food

by Ivan



            Did you ever wonder what the “Right to food” means? Well here are some facts about it. In general, the right to food means-the access to food. To be able to eat, to never starve. Now in the world, many people are hungry, without food. These people are very thin. Unfortunately no many people care about them. Apart from the world food program and the UN. “Right”, the word it means to have an access an authorization to get something. We all have a right to live. However, those hungry people don’t have the right to food. They can’t eat, they just don’t have food.

            The right to food, in a complete, general idea is directed at everyone! Even to those people, who don’t have food, who don’t eat. Everyone in the world must have access to food. We need food for energy and strength. And for the main reason-to survive. Sadly, very sadly not everyone can eat till this day. The hungriest spots in the world are the following. Africa: the east, a little bit in the south. Especially in the east-Ethiopia. The entire, or at least ¾ of the entire region is hungry. Other places are in the west side of Europe: Spain and Portugal. However, the countries that don’t have hunger are of course the most developed ones. Europe (east, south and north), Australia and of course, the U.S. In the world, there is enough food to feed everyone. So why is this happening-hunger? Why 800 million people go to bed hungry? Why every 3.2 seconds a person dies of hunger? Well the most often and the most famous reasons are-natural disasters, human activities and other reasons. The natural disasters are: floods, droughts and storms. Thanks to them, the agricultural implants are destroyed. Which leads to the loss of crops. The human activities, however are the following. First-wars, which kill people, who could be field workers. Wars can also destroy crops. Then-pollution, the water, the air, it is all polluted by our human activities. The crops can get infected and so can the food. Finally our main danger, not only for food hunger but for our entire population: the green house effect, or global warming.

            The main ways to fight hunger are the following. First the countries that have more food, should probably export to the poorer countries, with less food. Then, humans need to better predict natural disasters like floods or droughts. If floods come, then build dams to stop it. If droughts come, then get a lot of water to feed the plants.
 

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