Food Insecurity

Food insecurity is a very huge and deadly problem around the world and millions of people suffer from hunger and poor food sources every day, especially those overseas in countries like the republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Burundi, and Eritrea. (http://top5ofanything.com/index.php?h=8d7963b5). But there are thousands of social workers abroad and nationally that fights for these people and try to get them the supplies they need to survive and not die of hunger or poor food that is diseased or old. The most popular and widely recognized group is called the IFSW (International Federation of Social Workers) it was formed in Paris, France in 1928 at the first international conference on social work. (http://ifsw.org/what-we-do/) they have thousands of social workers that work on a variety of social problems food insecurity being one of those. They are predicting that there will be a rapid rise in prices in food because of the terrible drought the mid-west of the United States is having the worst they have seen in 50 years, the lack of only a few days of rain in Russia for the wheat season, India getting little to no rain at all only little amount from monsoons, and the drought in Africa’s best farming lands they predict is all going to accumulate into one big disaster for people over sees so yes to answer the question this is a very big worldwide problem ( http://ifsw.org/news/rapid-rise-in-food-prices-and-food-insecurity-predicted-to-lead-to-social-upheaval-in-2013/). There are a couple different kinds of people that food insecurity deals with. For example countries overseas that is just poor in general or exploited by their leaders and they do not care about the people they lead so they starve. Single mothers who cannot afford to provide the correct food for their babies and they become malnourished. People who have lost their jobs and cannot provide for their families anymore. “SNAP offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low income