The Need for War
Food the next need for war!
Introduction
If I were to add one more factor that would cause a threat to the world peace would be – food.
The Gleneagles Summit held around three years ago initiated the world to the need to focus on long-overdue attention on Africa. Promises were made and gave the people of Africa a new hope. Looking forward and taking into consideration of the year 2008, when world leaders gathered at United Nations (UN) headquarters to study the progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals, the first and the prior focuses was on poverty under the title “halve world poverty and hunger.” However looking at the current problems we are facing makes me wonder, How far have we come toward ending the pervasive embarrassment of hunger that haunts so much of sub-Saharan Africa?
A recent awareness regarding the problems faced by Horns of Africa was held in Bhutan was an eye-opener for me or rather one way of measuring. The speaker from Ethiopia gave a brief picture of Africa food crisis and what is the real cause of the food crisis and how is it different from the other food crisis faced by the Africa. It came to my notice that at least 16 million people (including 3 million children) are in urgent need of food and other humanitarian aid across the Horn of Africa. This food crisis resulted due to crippling drought, the impact of soaring food and fuel prices and continuing of armed conflict in certain places in Africa.
Causes and consequences
It surprised me, to know that in Ethiopia alone, 6.4 million currently require emergency food with no signs of new harvest in sight in some areas until next spring - as told by the speaker. Thousands of children are still being treated for severe acute malnutrition. An on additional to that even worse crisis has been luckily been avoided, because another 8 million Ethiopians were already able to receive cash or food vouchers under an innovative government safety net program.
Introduction
If I were to add one more factor that would cause a threat to the world peace would be – food.
The Gleneagles Summit held around three years ago initiated the world to the need to focus on long-overdue attention on Africa. Promises were made and gave the people of Africa a new hope. Looking forward and taking into consideration of the year 2008, when world leaders gathered at United Nations (UN) headquarters to study the progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals, the first and the prior focuses was on poverty under the title “halve world poverty and hunger.” However looking at the current problems we are facing makes me wonder, How far have we come toward ending the pervasive embarrassment of hunger that haunts so much of sub-Saharan Africa?
A recent awareness regarding the problems faced by Horns of Africa was held in Bhutan was an eye-opener for me or rather one way of measuring. The speaker from Ethiopia gave a brief picture of Africa food crisis and what is the real cause of the food crisis and how is it different from the other food crisis faced by the Africa. It came to my notice that at least 16 million people (including 3 million children) are in urgent need of food and other humanitarian aid across the Horn of Africa. This food crisis resulted due to crippling drought, the impact of soaring food and fuel prices and continuing of armed conflict in certain places in Africa.
Causes and consequences
It surprised me, to know that in Ethiopia alone, 6.4 million currently require emergency food with no signs of new harvest in sight in some areas until next spring - as told by the speaker. Thousands of children are still being treated for severe acute malnutrition. An on additional to that even worse crisis has been luckily been avoided, because another 8 million Ethiopians were already able to receive cash or food vouchers under an innovative government safety net program.