FREE ESSAY ON GLOBAL IMBALANCE IN FOOD SUPPLY

GLOBAL IMBALANCE IN FOOD SUPPLY

Right now, developing countries are starving to death and the developed countries are
worried about which type of cheese they should buy. This is called an imbalance in food
supply. There's too much food in the developed countries, and not enough in the
developing countries. 
Three quarters of the world's population is inadequately fed and the majority of these
live in the developing countries. Massive surpluses exist in Europe and the US.
Malnutrition and undernutrition is generally caused by poverty. Markets in the developed
countries are often too big and produce too much food for a population to consume.
Developed countries' agriculture is lacking from unemployment, untreated diseases, food
shortage, bad hygiene, lack of doctors, lack of capital, low income, unsuccessful
agriculture and the constant threat from the developed world who takes their money away.
All these are factors of food shortage in the developed countries. The United Nations try
to help but they don't help in the long run. Instead of helping the dying ones they
should get the standard of living higher, especially in terms of education. A national
income doesn't increase if the percentage of the population in a developed country
working in agriculture is increased. 
There is a concern in the developing countries about food availability, stability of
supplies and access to supplies. Former approaches by the Food and Agriculture
Organization to food security emphasized
the supply side - food availability and supply stability - in particular through the
building and maintenance of adequate levels of food stocks at the national and/or
regional and international levels. 
For North America's agriculture, the war years were a period of expansion and prosperity.
Agricultural production in this region increased by one third compared with pre-war
levels, and net cereal exports rose from about 5 million tonnes in 1938 to an annual
average of 17.5 million tonnes in 1946-48. Europe's net annual cereal imports rose from
9.5 million to 14 million tonnes at the same time. 
About 800 million people in the world were undernourished and that the threat of
malnourishment was increasing in many countries. The need for closer identification of
the causes, nature and magnitude of
the problem so as to define coordinated strategies and realistic objectives; and the need
to enhance international solidarity and mobilize the necessary resources. 
The Plan of Action adopted by the EU affirmed the commitment of the international
community to eradicating the hunger and malnutrition affecting about one fifth of the
developing world's population, and specifically to halving the number of undernourished
people in the world within a period of 20 years. The EU also confirmed a consensus on
several important points: that the problems of hunger
and malnutrition are associated primarily with poverty. 
The general environment for growth and food security was improved by a move towards
democratic regimes, particularly in Africa, and a consolidation of economic reforms that
began to yield long-awaited results. Many developing countries, including some of the
largest and most populous, benefited from this process and made further inroads into the
longstanding problems of hunger and malnutrition.
Conclusion
Special attention has to be paid to the importance of increasing food production and
productivity so that food could be made available at reasonable prices for the developing
countries. Also, the developing countries must find better ways to import. The developed
countries must pursue economic goals without the current levels of inacceptable
environmental damage to themselves and other nations; World security is an achievable
goal, but not with countries that harm themselves. An exception is Asia which has half of
the world's population but only one fifth of the earth's surface, on top of that it is
almost entirely dependent on agricultural exports. It's population is a big problem which
is impossible to solve unless the government spreads a new virus, or enhance their AIDS
virus. Asia will always be helpless and it is entirely uncontrollable. 
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