Food Security in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Today I will talk about food security in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DR Congo is an African country that consists of over 2,300,000 square kilometres (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The population in DR Congo is around seventy-five and a half million people with an average life expectancy of 56 years, a lot shorter than Australians (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The religion consists of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslims plus some other smaller religions (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The capital city is called Kinshasa, with other large cities called Lubumbashi, Mbuji-Mayi and Kananga (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). The Democratic Republic of Congo is very poor and the value of goods produced per capita is only $231, but on the rise (Knoema Atlas , 2012). In this poor country it is expected that it has a high poverty rate and it does, with over 70% of the population living in poverty (Central Intelligence Agency (US), 2013). In addition the urbanisation rate is only 35% (US State Department, 2009). The climate in DR Congo is hot and humid as it is close to the equator. There is (United Nations Environment Programme, 2012)very little rainfall near the coast but increases as you go inland (Lonely Planet, 2014). This country is located in the central part of Africa. In DR Congo there are two main types of biomes, tropical rainforest and moist savannah (United Nations Environment Programme, 2012). Tropical rainforests exist in central and northern parts of DR Congo, while the moist savannah mainly exists in the southern parts of DR Congo (United Nations Environment Programme, 2012). Tropical rainforests are normally hot and humid and hav...

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...ease of wealth in the country, more people would be able to invest in more things to create a better lifestyle. The only problem with this plan is that when there are good roads more cars will use it, making more pollution. My second way of fixing DR Congo’s world ranking is to improve the framing incentives for all involved with production of food in this country. This would encourage people from other countries to come over to DR Congo and farm, helping produce more food. The down side with this is that some people might make their wealth and then leave, making us return to square one. After doing this report I believe that the better way to heal these problems is my first idea. This is because I think strategy A has more potential and the advantages out way the disadvantages as seen on my decision making matrix. I expect you have learnt something from my speech.

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