On one side of the world, people are stuffed and overfed. Many of these people are not even directly involved in agriculture. If you look right across the ocean—particularly Sierra Leone—you can see that people are starving. Two-thirds of the population is reduced to subsistence farming and many have to trek dangerous fields just to obtain their food. Civil war has brought devastation to the developing country and as a result, its economy crumbled. This made rice, their staple food, become a rarity.
Without the food product they have been consuming over decades, they starve. Joseph Sam Sesay, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture, has suggested that rice should be replaced with other crops like sweet potatoes. Replacing the rice with
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Unfortunately, like replacing food products, it also comes with underlying issues. The construction of infrastructure may provide access to markets and help in the long run, but the amount of time required to build it causes the country to crumble even more because all resources have to be allocated to the infrastructure. On top of that, Sierra Leone still lacks the money and technology to properly maintain the new constructions.
These solutions lead all have two conflicting problems: preserving the culture or saving the lives of the people. Having one leads to the loss of the other. When you account for Sierra Leone’s refusal to change, it is clear that preserving the culture can be the only solution. Yes, it may lead to a drastic loss of life. But, if you choose not to preserve the culture, the people of Sierra Leone would rather let themselves die than to accommodate to the new changes.
This is one of the reasons that has led other nations, including the United States, to send rice to Sierra Leone just to keep the country alive. In turn, Sierra Leone has developed an overdependence on foreign support. The rice sent most likely gave Sierra Leoneans the notion that rice will always be available and further reinforced their belief that rice should not be
Kenya is in a malnourished area, so the farmers should sell their produce more locally for better improvements
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One of the largest issues facing the Global South today is food security. In many cases food security is closely associated with agriculture in a specific area. Due to several issues faced by post war agriculture in Sierra Leone a food security issue has arisen leading to income/consumption poverty. One of the issues facing in Sierra Leone is the number of citizens choosing to work in the mining industry as opposed to working in agriculture. Another issue faced by the agriculture industry in Sierra Leone is the displacement of many farm families due to the civil war and the affect it has on food production. The agriculture industry in Sierra Leone also faces this issue of rice importation into the country which lowers the income of farmers. These issues faced by the agriculture sector in Sierra Leone have lead to problems with food security and poverty.
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Every culture has its "staple" food. This is the food product that anchors each meal. For some cultures, it is meat and potatoes. However, for most of the world, regardless of region, rice is the staple that is served most often. . It is “A food staple of half the planet’s population” (Reynolds pg 1). But why rice? Why not bread or potatoes as is common in western countries? Within nutrisional basic food pyramid, rice is part of the breads, cereal, rice and pasta family. This family is the baseline foundation of human nutrition. Rice is a popular crop as it can be grown and cultivated fairly easily. Rice is grown by individual families for their personal needs, or can be cultivated by large farms for supply to the world. Rice is simpler to grow than wheat or potatoes because it does not have a long growing time and can grow in smaller areas and provides a greater yield per square acre than wheat or potatoes. Regardless of how you like your rice, it is basically prepared the same way, boiled. Once the rice is cooked, cultures take a different approach to the completion of a rice-based dish. Rice has a long history of being the perfect accompaniment for even the simplest of foods.
Religion in Sierra Leone West Africa has changed and evolved over the last two to three thousand years in many different ways. Religion can be described as set of beliefs that explain the universe; religion is more than spirituality and is complicated in understanding the world. Religion can be described as belief concerning one or more deities and incorporating ceremonies, ethical guidelines and rituals.
Congo, Zimbabwe, and Liberia are some of the most impoverished nations in the world and require the assistance of organizations such as UNICEF or AARP in order to receive food in order to survive. Locavores may suggest promoting the creation of local farms to provide food that is nearby, cost efficient, and organic. An argument one might hear may be how, the farther away your food is grown, the longer of time it will take to reach you, and the more likely you are to go hungry. While it is true that moving food from one place to another would take a longer period of time, it is important to realize the risk associated with locally grown organic foods. If an entire population is heavily reliant on local farmers, it begs the question. What would happen if there's a drought in the highly impoverished area? What if there is a flood, a disease ravages the plants, insects decimate the plant population, thieves steal from the field, not to mention the now growing population, the farmers would be forced to expand their land and maintain it. Smaller farmers are limited also by the soil. They cannot continuously plant the same type of crop because some crops take much of the nutrients out of the soil making it less fertile and forcing the farmers to wait rotate their crops on different fields in order to maintain a constant output of goods. If one
The developed world’s love affair with local/organic farming (peasant farming as Collier describes it) has decreased food production worldwide because it does not use the land efficiently enough as with commercial agriculture companies. It also requires government subsidies that large commercial farming companies do not necessarily need. By increasing commercial farming, the world food supply will inevitably increase over a short period.
There are many problems confronting our global food system. One of them is that the food is not distributed fairly or evenly in the world. According “The Last Bite Is The World’s Food System Collapsing?” by Bee Wilson, “we are producing more food—more grain, more meat, more fruits and vegetables—than ever before, more cheaply than ever before” (Wilson, 2008). Here we are, producing more and more affordable food. However, the World Bank recently announced that thirty-three countries are still famine and hungers as the food price are climbing. Wilson stated, “despite the current food crisis, last year’s worldwide grain harvest was colossal, five per cent above the previous year’s” (Wilson, 2008). This statement support that the food is not distributed evenly. The food production actually increased but people are still in hunger and malnutrition. If the food were evenly distributed, this famine problem would’ve been not a problem. Wilson added, “the food economy has created a system in w...
Cellulitis is inflammation of tissues that are connected also, known as a common bacterial skin infection. It can be painful and sensitive when touched also red and swollen. Cellulitis is caused when a person has an open wound such as as cut, insect bite, surgical opening, that gets bacteria into the wound. Common risk factors of Cellulitis are a weakened immune system, diabetes, and skin conditions known as athlete's foot. There are many symptoms of Cellulitis such as shaking, chills, warm skin, redness of the skin, muscle aches, and lightheadedness. Doctors usually can look at the patient's skin and know if it is cellulitis or not. Most doctors perform an exam just to make sure. The exam might consist of checking if the skin is swollen, redness
Globalizing Politics Globalization affects almost every aspect of life for the citizens in the Mayor’s city. With respect to globalization, my area of expertise is the role globalization plays in our town’s economy. I will focus on will be the economic benefits our city would undergo if we opened our cities for new companies. Economic globalization can be defined as the “Intensification and stretching of global economic connections throughout the globe. ”(Steger 9).
Famine has struck parts of Africa several times during the 20th century, and to this day is still going strong. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the average African consumes 2300 kcal/day, less than the global average of 2700 kcal/day. Recent figures estimate that 316 million Africans, or approximately 35 percent of the continent's total population, is undernourished. Although hunger in Africa is hardly new, it now occurs in a world that has more than enough food to feed all its citizens. Moreover, while Africa's population is growing rapidly, it still has ample fertile land for growing food. Hunger therefore reflects not absolute food scarcity but rather people's lack of access to resources—whether at the individual, house-hold, comunity, or national leve that are needed to produce or purchase adequate food supplies. The reasons people cannot obtain enough food are: several different historical patterns of in equality. These patterns include the in equalities between Africa and its former colonisers or contemporary financiers, and between Africa's rich and poor. It also includes in equality between members of the same households, where food and the resources needed to obtain it (such as land and income) are often unevenly distributed between men and women, old and young. Whatever the reasons for food deprivation, when the result is malnutrition it can do damage, increasing diseases such as malaria, rickets, anemia, and perhaps acquired immune deficiency syndrome aka AIDS Mal-nourished children suffer stunted growth and, often, learning problems. Malnourished adults have less energy to work. Over the long term, inadequate nourishment can cast communities into a cycle o...
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Most of the affected war countries around the globe lack adequate store rooms, dependable water for farming, vegetation 's, good roads and proper way of preserving food for the people. Excellent preservation of the agricultural lands, plant and farm animals can bring a positive change in the farming systems. Most of the developing countries support only a little attention to agriculture, but they rather focus mainly on foreign goods that will earn them quick money. Agricultural investment reduces hunger and poverty than any other sectors in many countries. Investing more in the agriculture sector in most of the rural communities will reduce the number of people moving from the countryside to the cities. "The percentage of donor aid going towards agriculture dropped from 17 percent to 3.8 percent between 1980 and 2006, with only slight improvement in numbers over the last three years" (Diouf). There are plenty of fertile lands that supports plants growth but because less attention has been given to the agricultural sector, more than one million people go to bed without food. FAO "estimates that an increase of nearly $36 billion yearly will be needed for poor countries to develop the necessary infrastructure for food production" (Camacho). The agricultural sector needs more attention from the NGO 's, and the government as Buffet is giving out $3 billion to change farming and food. By