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Blog 7: Hunger in Iran

November 13, 2020

The country that I chose this week for my sustainable goal is Iran. Iran is one of the 6th largest refugee population in the world. They are hosting 1 million refugees and they typically come from Afganistan and Iraq (The World Food Programme, 2020). Iran has had complications when it comes to food security due to problems with climate change, and how it affects farmlands. Due to the poor soil and lack of proper water distribution, most of the farmland can not be used for planting. Not only does it affect agricultural farming, but the dry soil also affects the plantation for grains or vegetation. This is what helps feed livestock and without it, it is likely that the livestock will not thrive (Borgen, 2020). Refugees living in settlements have limited job opportunities, no access to farming, and a prohibition to keep livestock which makes them unable to meet their food needs. Poorly diversified diets and detrimental practices, which include skipping meals, consuming cheap and unhealthy...

Blog 6: Hunger in Nigeria

November 06, 2020

The country that I chose this week for my sustainable goal is Nigeria. Nigeria is one of Africas wealthiest countries and has one of the fastest-growing economies. However, more than half of the country lives below the poverty line and suffers the world’s third-largest level of chronic undernutrition among children. Nigeria is suffering from and dealing with a lack of access to safe water and sanitation, rising food insecurity, the disruption of basic services because of conflict, and have poor knowledge of healthy feeding practices for infants and young children (Action Against Hunger, 2020). Nigeria is also suffering from climate change which causes them to have periodic floods and droughts, which has had a major impact on agriculture output and increased the vulnerability of populations, especially people who live, work, or gain access to food from rural areas (World Food Programme, 2020). Nigeria has been using countless resources to improve the crisis that is happening and tr...

Blog 5: Hunger in Ghana

October 31, 2020

The country that I chose this week for my sustainable goal is Ghana. Ghana has a population of 28.8 million and a third of it is living on less than $1.25 a day. Ghana mainly suffers from malnutrition, hunger, and poverty and are trying their best to improve (World Food Programme, 2018). Although Ghana is rapidly improving through oil production, gold mining, and other types of industries, most of the wealth is not distributed to the population due to high corruption. Small scale farmers depend on outdated farming tools, and have small access to better fertilizers and seeds that can increase crop yields (The Hunger Project, 2020). Farmers also face challenges from climate change due to most of their food coming from agriculture growth, and when there is a drought this makes it harder for food to be produced. They are also affected by insufficient education and knowledge, unsustainable farming systems, and are vulnerable to global price spikes for foods that are being imported like rice...

Blog 4: Hunger in Kenya

October 18, 2020

The country that I chose for this week for my sustainable goal is Kenya. Kenya has a population of over 48.5 million and 35.6% of the population lives on less than $1.90 a day (World Food Programme, 2020). Kenya has been going through extremely difficult challenges over the years due to droughts, hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. 4.2% of the children are severely suffering from malnourishment and 26.2% are chronically malnourished. Between January to September 2019 it showed that climate change was a big factor in the causes of the issues that Kenya has been suffering through. Kenya has suffered through an increase of drought, food and nutrition insecurity, reduced water access, and increased child morbidity. In October extreme floods that were considered deadly affected thousands of its people, and disrupted health services, economic activities, and livelihoods. Soon after it only got worse in December when desert lotuses started to quickly spread which soon became a big threat for t...

Blog 3: Hunger in Pakistan

October 11, 2020

The country I chose this week for my sustainable goal is Pakistan. Pakistan has a population of over 207.7 million people and 36.9 percent of that population is facing food insecurity. One of the main reasons is due to the limited economic access by the poorest and most vulnerable group of the population which is the majority of women (World Food Programme, 2020). Pakistan also suffers from one of the world’s worst malnutrition rates and 45% of children under the age of five are stunted. Another reason would be climate change. In 2019 Pakistan suffered from earthquakes, heavy rainfall, and drought which has really affected their agriculture growth (Action Against Hunger, 2020). In order to improve the malnutrition rate and allow the people of Pakistan to have better access to food, the government has partnered with an organization called the World Food Programme. Pakistan and the World Food Programme plan on accomplishing their goal and using different types of resources. Some of ...

Blog 2: Hunger in India

October 02, 2020

The country I chose for my Sustainable Development Goal is India. India is a country that has a population of over 1.3 billion people. Although there has been a major economic and industrial growth, there are over 189.2 million people in India who are undernourished. This means that the country is still unable to provide food for a large number of people in the country, specifically for women and children (India FoodBanking Network, 2020). To reduce the number of people malnourished and provide more resources for food, an organization was created called The India FoodBanking Network. The India FoodBanking Network is an organization that has a goal of ending hunger in India by 2030. To make their plan successful, they plan on providing a minimum of one food bank in every district in India and plan to bring the government, private sectors, and NGOs to help fight hunger, malnutrition, and help provide information on how and where people can gain access to food. They also plan to part...

Blog 1: Zero Hunger

September 19, 2020

The Sustainable Developmental Goal that I chose to learn more about is the Zero Hunger, which is listed as number 2 on the SDG cite. I wanted to learn more due to how world hunger is something that is continuously being fought and is one of the main causes of death in the world. Zero Hunger is an organization that aims to, “End hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round” (SDG, 2020). This interested me more to learn about ways that certain groups and organizations plan to help countries that are struggling with world hunger. The country that I chose for this week is Ethiopia, which is based in Africa. Ethiopia is a country that uses agriculture as its main food source which has caused them to be vulnerable towards climate change. Since agriculture is widely based on water helping the crops grow and produce, then if there is a drought, it affects greatly the...

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