“How to Solve Food Shortage”

by Chloe Kang

May, 2022

A prolonged war just seems to be a sign of our food becoming more expensive and that is absolutely true. However, it is not what it is about. What actually leads to people getting starved and protest starts from lack of food and an enormous growth in food prices. It is an emergency telling us to act. Since there aren’t any simple answers to solve, it has affected a bunch of people in the world. 

via) https://croplife.org/news/beyond-the-big-four-staple-crops-around-the-world/

THE IMPACT OF WAR

<Ukraine & Russia>

“Ukraine and Russia are the major countries which export huge amount of the world’s key foods. “Nearly 30 percent of wheat, 17 percent of corn and 32 percent of barley, 75 percent of sunflower seed oil are crucial supplies are exported from Ukraine and Russia” (Aizenman). However, since Russia invaded Ukraine, a large section of the global world’s food especially wheat and crop have been stuck in those two countries which it is obvious in itself that it affects on world hunger. For example, “Armenia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Eritrea are the countries which have imported almost of their wheat/crop from Russia and Ukraine” (Vazquez and Fossum). Therefore they should find new sources from other countries, only to fail. Because wealthy countries that have enough food supplies have not provided funding food for them, because they also must keep their people healthy. To make matters worse, if quantity of crops decrease, prices of crop go rise. For example, if there is only bread left in a bakery, the value of the bread will be rose and the price of it will be raised as well. Therefore lack of food leads the price of food increases and makes people hungry.  

 SOLUTIONS

<Donation, Individuals>

If those tons of crops do not get to market, a lot of people in the world especially in Africa are going to starve to death. However, since President Joe Biden knows that Ukrainian crops and Russian crops are not being exported, he is looking forward to “exporting the US food supply so as to help decrease the effect of the issue” (Vazquez and Fossum).  “Russia exports wheat the most, the United States export 13%, $7.29 billion dollars, Australia, Canada and Ukraine etc” (Workman).  Even though those two countries have stopped exporting wheat, the rest of the countries, including the U.S, Australia, Canada, can help them to ease this problem. Therefore they might export more crops in order to make up for the gap in a war in Ukraine. However, on the other perspective, this can be a chance for them to avail themselves of their crops to export because if the quality of crops is good, other countries such Afghanistan will import food from the countries even though a war ends which is beneficial for those countries.

World Food Program which helps reduce hunger all around the world can donate fund to those countries which need crops or provide crops’ seeds. However, if countries don’t have available weather to plant crops, other countries such as Canada or the U.S can export particular crops’ seeds to the countries.

As citizens of individual countries, people need to express their feelings to their office or staff by some activities in order to tell how serious this issue is affecting to people.  One of the activities people can do is ” writing letter campaigns” (Evers). If people express their feelings by writing letters or other ways such as emailing to governments, they might move into some actions to prevent the problem. People also can donate to global charity organizations that are designed to alleviate worldwide food shortages and hunger.  To overcome this situation,  there are lots of ways that people can do!

The way of solving rising food prices would depend on countries but “the most obvious action would be ending a war in Ukraine” (Evers). Since, there are no ways to solve it, so people would better write letters/email to offices or donate fund. Add more, if other countries such as the U.S, Canada export more crops, the price of food especially crop prices will be decreased.

via) https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/agriculture-and-crops-a-focus-on-wheat-cultivation/80915/

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, participating in campaign which writes letters/email to express people’s feeling to officers will be the activity that all individual citizens can do. They also can donate to global charity so as to alleviate the hunger, food shortage or world food program which can provide food to those countries need help, and if countries which are able to export crops, export more, countries which are to import crops will get benefit. Solving global food shortage and rising food prices don’t have simple solutions however someday this issue can be solved!

WORKS CITED

Aizenman, Nurith, Author, “The impact of the war in Ukraine on the global food supply.” All Things Considered, 15 Apr. 2022, p. NA. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A702460907/MSIC?u=cnisbj&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=b5bbfecf. Accessed 26 May 2022. 

Maegan Vazquez and Sam Fossum, Authors. “Biden blames Russia’s war in Ukraine for food supply shortages and price hikes.” CNN Wire, 11 May 2022, p. NA. Gale In Context: Middle School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A703277121/MSIC?u=cnisbj&sid=bookmark-MSIC&xid=85cfb6cb. Accessed 26 May 2022 

Workman, Daniel, editor. “Wheat Exports by Country.” Wheat Exports by Country, 22 May 2022, www.worldstopexports.com/wheat-exports-country/. Accessed 15 May 2022. 

Cameron, Evers, Expert “through email” Accessed 1st June 2022.