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Between 1950 and 1984, the Green Revolution began to influence farming. This saw world grain production improve by 250%, even though much of this gain was non-sustainable. These agricultural technologies temporarily increased crop yields, but there are signs as early as 1995 that not only are these technologies reaching their peak of assistance, but they may now be contributing to the decline of arable land e.g. persistence of pesticides leading to soil contamination and decline of area available for farming. Developed nations have been willing to share these technologies with developing nations that have famine crisis, but there are ethical restrictions in regards to thrusting such technologies on lesser developed countries. This is often accredited to an association of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides with a lack of longevity. It is thought that these technological advances might not be as great in those famines which are the result of war. Increased yield may not be helpful with certain allocation problems, especially those occurring from political intervention (Food Shortage: Causes of Famine, 2010).
Humanity is experiencing the post-Cold War era of economic and social crisis of that lead to the rapid hardship of large population sectors of the world. National economies are failing and unemployment is out of control. Local level famines have tremendously gone up Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia as well as parts of Latin America. This globalization of poverty which has primarily turned around the achievements of post-war decolonization was not only started in the Third World but has corresponded with the debt crisis and imposition of deadly economic reorganization around the world (Chossudovsky, 2008).
Famine is often labeled as a tremendous shortage...
Deaths that occur during famine are thought not to only be due to malnutrition, but also from infectious diseases on which malnutrition influences the population and from the social problems that are brought about by the shortage of food. Famine is a true public health crisis, and unfortunately has been a common human experience for a very long time (Famine, 2010).
It would appear at first glance that famine should be a very easy problem to fix since there are many countries that have an over abundance of food. But because of the different political ideologies that exist around the world it is often very hard to convince others that they way that they are currently doing things is not necessarily the best way. As long as there are different opinions around the world there will continue to be those that will refuse help from others. This will make it very hard to someday eliminate the famine that currently exists around the world.
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