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Do you agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation & malnutrition through International aid? Why/Why not? Write your views and respond to any ONE of your friend's response.
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Si Xian here.
No, I do not agree. It will take a long time for food shortage to be reduced due to numerous reasons for instance, corrupted government officials taking the food as their own. As much as there are organisations helping out by providing rations for the countries, there is still a limit to the help provided. What the organisations can help then is to guide them on cultivating their own crops. If all is well, the country should be able to have a good harvest. But will the crops be enough for the whole country? Will the country have enough land that are suitable for cultivating crops? What if another natural disaster strikes? Therefore, I think that food shortage is not being reduced in countries facing starvation and malnutrition. Of course there may be a probability that food shortage can be reduced. But that will take a long time before results appear.
KaiWen.
I do not agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation & malnutrition through International aid. Because, currently they are just giving them food for a period of time. But how long can this food lasts? Food prices are escalating, even the International aid are facing difficulties to help everyone. International aid should teach them knowledge that will stay with them forever, from one generation to another. This way, they can have knowledge for them to do as a living. However, in the mean time, they do need the help from International aid to provide food for them in case of natural disasters and corrupted government. International aid can teach them how to grow crops and how to handle natural disaster with the mininum loss. International aid can help to solve the problem of corrupted government as having a corrupted government is really a big problem. Although this may seem a hard work, with perseverance and determination I believe those less developed countries will be able to develop slowly. In conclusion, international aid did help them to pass through the tough times but still the problem is there. This problem cannot be solved over a short period of time. It requires long time effort and endless determination. Thus, by giving them the knowledge of how to take care of themselves instead of letting them to rely on International aid will be a more efficient way as time goes by.
I agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International aid. According to the research i had done, the Food and Agriculture Organizaition 925 millions people are undernourished in 2010 compared to 2009 where there are 1.023 billion were suffering from undernorished. Not only that, the proportion of people that are undernorished in developing countries had also decreased. As some of these countries frequently experience floods or droughts it is difficult as they do not have the time to recover from one disaster to another, for them to grow their crops. thus affecting the food security. Therefore, I think it reduces starvation and malnutrition. Without the help of the International aid, there will be more people suffering from these problems and the number of deaths will gradually increase.
Weiping.
i agree that food shortage gradully reduced through international aid. although there are still lots of people starving and malnourished many people from the less developed countries were help from richer developed countries which had reduced sinificantly the number of people starving in those countries.this international organisation also help countries which face food shortage due to natural disaster and affected by harvesting their crops.unfortunately there are still too many people dying from stravation and malnourishment therefore these international effort might not be enough to solve the problem of food shortage. pehaps we should save food by helping the other people in the LDCs.
-by Fabian
I do not agree that the shortage of food is being reduced through International aid. This is because there is still people living in poverty and International aid is not able to help them. Food is only a temporarily way out. What the people really need is skills that will enable them to get a job and earn income to support their family. The International aid would not have the sufficient amount of money to continue supplying food to the people living in poverty. No matter how much food the International aid is able to provide them, there will still be a portion of the people living in poverty.
-BoonHui
No, I do not agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through international aid. There is so many countries in the world, especially in the less developed countries( LDCs), the international aid is just a temporary helping hand, this will not last long. Furthermore, the international aid are also facing problems such like financial burden. There is so many people suffering from starvation and malnutrition, the international aid may not have the ability to support them throughout their life. What the people need besides food is actually some working skills that can help them to earn a living so that they will not be to reliant on international aid. Perhaps food shortage may be reduced, but it may take a long time before the results can be seen.
~Ng Yun Xuan 4e1
I do not agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International aid. Because, the food provided for them are not for long term. In addition, even when production shortfall is the primary cause of insufficient supply, the ecological and political reasons for production problems vary widely. They range from natural disasters such as drought, flood, or fungus, to political disasters such as civil conflict, to misguided economic policies such as price controls. Thus, international aid cannot do much to prevent these natural disasters to happen.
Zena.
I agree to a certain extent that help is being given out to the starving people in LDCs with the help of the WFP. This reduces malnutrition and starvation,but only to the small number of people that receive it. The percentage of the people who receive it is definitely not high.
I believe this is because due to the lack of funds needed to support the programme. Although the amounts that have been donated seem to be big,but there are more than 1 billion people in LDCs starving. The few billion dollars that are raised will only equal out to give each starving person a few dollars..
Help is slow,but I believe that if there is enough food on earth now,one day, no one will have to starve.
I do agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face malnutrition and starvation through International Aid. The World Food Programme of the UN provides food to 90 million per year (on average) and most of them are children as children are more prone to malnutrition as well as starvation. They help to prevent child malnutrition as well as to decrease mortality rate by providing food and necessities to the citizens of LDC. These measures help to secure food stability, prevent famines and allow them easier access to food; therefore, the World Food Programme actually helps to reduce food shortage in LDCs.
However, supplies and resources may run low, as reported in July 2009, they were forced to cut services due to insufficient funding because they were below their budget by $3 billion. This factor caused increase in the number of people in need and decrease of amount DCs are willing to donate. Therefore, the WFP began to distribute cash and vouchers instead of food as it is a cheaper and faster as well as efficient way to help the needy people in LDCS, especially the areas where food is accessible but not affordable. In this way, they can help the needy people who have limited access to markets. There are both advantages and disadvantages to this topic.
Although food shortage would not be drastically reduced, I do believe that the measures WFP are taking and providing for the needy people in LDCs are reducing food shortage.
(Chia Wan Xing)
No, I do not agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International Organisation. From the research that I have done, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had give food distributions to the less developed countries (LDCs). For example Niger, nearly 200,000 people were provided to cover their needs for one to four months. But it was not enough. Children in Niger were still suffering from starvation and malnurition. In 2010, nearly 17 percent of Niger's children suffer acute malnurition, a 42 percent increase over the same period last year. No matter how much they provide food aid to those people in less developed countries, there will still be people dying from poverty, starvation or malnutrition.
-Leona
Natasha
Yes i do agree that food shortage is being reduced. Even though it may take quite awhile for it to happen, it is still helping the people in LDC's. Some of us has a sense of knowledge that the income some people in the LDC's receive is low and they might not have any jobs at all. From the research that i have done, some of these food shortage problems are not the people's fault. For example, natural disasters can occur anytime and anywhere. These can cause farmers to flee their crops to find a safe place for their families. Through the WFP, it can change the lives of the people suffering and start new ones for others.
Yes, I agree to a certain extent that food shortage is being reduced. The United Nations Organisations and Individual nations have taken measures to reduce the number of 800million people suffering from hunger and malnutrition to half by 2015.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Food subsidies and stock piling from the National Governments' Responses was also proved successful to help these people.
[Jolene Seah]
Yes, I agree only to a certain extent that food shortage is reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through the help of International aid.Project food aid, which is primarily given on a grant basis as support for specific social and economic development projects.
Certainly, impact of food aid will depend on the form it takes. When for emergency purposes, it no doubt saves many lives from death starvation, and probably has no or little impact on economy because it’s short-term transfer of food. But in the case of program aid, it has bigger effect on country’s production and market because it lasts for several years. In conclusion, international Aid must have long-term benefit for poor countries. Otherwise, it is only the question of time when developed countries would not be able to maintain growing number of people in the third world.
I agree that the food shortage is being reduced through international aid. When the food aid comes in to help the people, it certainly makes an impact to the people where they have their meals settled. However, How long it can last? Food aid probably cannot be there forever when there might have some situations in the helping countries. Then, the poor countries have to depend on their own to produce food. Thus, help from other countries should be implement some agricultural teaching projects that teach the people on how to produce food to support themselves instead of giving food to the countries in need.
No, I do not agree. These food aid may have helped some of the people, but as these people become more and more dependent on this aids, they will want to have more. These food aid are also short term and also consume a lot of money, so there may not be enough funds for more food.
The government should adapt and learn to stockpile and store. This will provide food supply to the population.
Ng Chun Siong
I agree that international aid has helped to reduce the countries that face starvation and malnutrition however, only to a certain extent. Some sources estimate that 20 million people die each year of hunger-related causes. FAO estimates that at least 435 million people are seriously undernourished in the world today. Food aid has been the first step to help solve the problem and nearly 10 million tonnes of cereals are provided each year to poorer countries as food aid. Unfortunately, food aid is not a lasting solution to the problem because if it is poorly planned and delivered, food aid can even have a harmful effect on the country by upsetting local customs and eating habits. By lowering the market prices, it can lower the income of local farmers, and it can discourage the local production and use of traditional crops.
-Amos Choy Xian Hao
Well, I personally do not agree that food shortage is being reduced. The Food provided would be for a short period of time. Not for a life time. People need to be independent and rely on themselves to learn skills and get a job to have monthly income. Food shortage maybe reduced, But just a little? It's not enough. There are so many poor countries out there. It is not really possible to help every single one of them. To be able to see the results, lots of time is needed here.
-JERALDINE 4E2
I agree only to an extent that International Organizations and donations from all over the world have helped in reducing the food shortages in the countries that face starvation and malnutrition. I say so because the food aid given to the countries in need has made a difference and has helped provide meals to the very needy people.
However, these organizations cannot always provide for the people. Donations might decrease and the organizations might run out of budget. The people might get dependent to the help provided to them. Instead, these organizations could help them by teaching them new skills, so that they can get better job opportunities, thus being able to get higher pay and higher purchasing power, or AT LEAST improve themselves for a better standard of daily living.
- Nur Sabrina Bte Yazid
I agree that the food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through international aid as the aid has successfully helped to decrease the number of people who are suffering from chronic hunger by 100 million people in a year. However, as much as they could do, the problems of food shortage cannot be alleviated as providing food supply is not ehough and it is also not an effective way to do so. Alleviating starvation and malnutrition takes a long term plans. Such as educating the people in order for them to be able to feed themselves. Therefore, the International aid will eventually alliviate food shortage as they have already set-up schools in those countries.
Ong Jia Yong.
I agree to a certain extent as food shortage can be reduce for a period of time with the International Food Aid giving out food. However this is not a practical suggestion, it can only help them a period of time, and it's not permanent. You can't be having people giving out food to them all the time. One way of another, we can actually offer them food when they actually worked for us instead of just having to be feed. They should work for it, cause nothing in this world should be taken for granted.
- Casper Peck
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I agree that due to the help of food aid, the number of starvation and malnutrition cases has successfully decreased. Food aid has help solve solutions to poorer countries but however, food will be upset local eating habits. Help is slow, but no one will have to starve when poor countries have to depend on their own to produce food like producing food to support themselves which also saves money for the country. People should do things to HELP themselves but not to take other countries resources for granted
CASSANDRA TAN!
Jingwen: yes i do agree that international organisation has help lots of country in rebuilding their homes and by giving them food through money or free food. But this is not a long term solution. In the end the people should learn a skill using the money so as to provide food for himself. They have rely one international organisation too much.
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No i do not agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation & malnutrition through International aid. The international aid will only last them for a very short period of them and when these help run out , they will still face the same problem of starving. To reduce the number of people starving , the government should start to invest in the agriculture sector so that the food supply of the country will increase and people in the country can afford it. But this is not really possible due to the corruption of some officials in the government where some of them will only think of their personal benefits instead of the whole country. And this bring them back to having to rely on International aid.
erm Amos tan here?? (:
I do agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International aid. On the other words, this mean that the International aid has helped those poorer countries to reduce the problem of food shortage by providing them free food and give them loan. I believe without this aid, the government also cannot help much to the country because they also have financial problems. However, i think those people in the country cannot rely on the International aid too much as it is not a long term solutions. They need to find their own ways to help themselves and solve their problems.
-Geok Fang! ^^
I agree that food shortage have been reduced through International aid. The aid given to the countries had somewhat help a number of people to get nutrition and the energy to work. However, the aid given now is not sufficient to completely solve the problem. Even if the current objectives are reached, the future could be different. How long would such organisations be able to support their cause? Food supplies around the world are diminishing, whether in a DC or LDC. People need to support themselves well before they could help out others.
Noor Azan.
Yes, I agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through international aids. After doing the research on an International Organization that deals with food aid, I realized that there are many different organizations that provide food aid for the country that experiences food shortage/food insecurity.
Although providing food aid, can help to eradicate food insecurity, but this cannot persist long. As well as, the country might also become dependent on the aid of the international organizations. In order for the International organizations to be able to provide aid, donations from all countries around the world must increase so that they are able to provide. But in my opinion, I'm rather sure that not all countries have the ability to constantly provide help for the needy. Thus, these countries which are receiving help from international organizations should learn to become more independent by enhancing their knowledge/skills so that they are able to improve their country's economy by getting more job opportunities.
But for now, countries which really do not have the ability to overcome the problem of starvation/malnutrition should still be able to approach international organizations for more help.
-Fiona Ang :D
Food shortage does not necessary be reduced in all countries that face starvation and malnutrition. Yes we agree some country’s hunger is being defeated. However, there are still many factors that would cause international aid to be wasted and washed down the drain. Divided into 2 main categories - human factors and natural factors, natural disasters could be unpredictable at times plus the corruptions of government and many more are an issue. In addition, news has reported that International Organizations are facing budget difficulties due to the rising food price worldwide. Furthermore, these organizations’ objective is to help the poorest out of the poor indicating their situation. Finally, although with the exist of International Organizations, the number of malnourished people hasn’t show any drastic sign of declining.
I feel that help from International Organizations definitely helps in the food shortage in a way or another in those less fortunate countries. When those organizations donates food and money to those countries. It aids them in developing at a faster pace, it also means giving the people there more purchasing power and increasing their ability to produce food. Although natural factors such as earthquakes can't be prevented, these organizations can at least aid the less developed countries to solve budget difficulties due to the rising food prices worldwide....
ABOVE = COVENT!!
I certainly do agree that food shortage is being reduced but only to a certain extent . Although the food aid had helped almost millions of people , it's not possible for the International Organization to provide food for the poverty forever . In my opinion ,International aid should instead let them work to get their own food .
-Lee Qing Xi
I agree that food shortage is reduced through international aid. Oragnizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank and the Asian Development bank has helped many LDCs having problems such as food, infrastructure and jobs by donating money to them, educating them and holding projects in their countries to increase their standard of living and quality of life. Although there are still many people in the world suffer from these problems, I think the International Organizations are trying their best to help as many LDCs as they can to alleviate uneven development in the world.
-Guang Wei
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I disagree, what the International Aid has done is basically ship medical and consumption based aid to the poor. Instead, I feel that they should spend the time educating the poor. By providing them with aid like that will only soften the harshness of starvation and malnutrition but these problems will still persist. With education, the poor will know how to respond in such times of need, be it natural or human factors, they would still be able to scavenge for food, rather than just sit in a pit and wait for help. Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day, but teaching him how to fish, will make enable him to stay full for a lifetime. I think this applies to the poor and that the International Organizations should be focusing more of their manpower to educate them, rather than just giving money and food. The number of poor people is just too great to be able to provide each and everyone one with food individually. But with education, they can share it and thus get a whole majority of them out of this vicious cycle. They need to strike at the root of the problem, not just ease the pain. Knowledge of how to propagate your own crops, grow your own food is more valuable than money itself.
-Amadeus Chia >_>
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In my opinion, i agree that the International Food Aid has benefited the countries that face starvation and malnutrition only to a certain extent. Though it may have helped reduce the food shortage faced by these countries, the results are either not sufficient enough or has a negative impact. There are people famished not only in the third world countries, but even the developed ones as well, the very same countries that provided food aid to the former mentioned. Are malnourished citizens in those countries that could afford to provide food aid being voided? It was as if the developed countries are helping out of fame, to acknowledge the world that they are part of the league that helps reduces food shortage in the countries that face the problems, earning them much more admiralty and respect. Returning to the main point, starving people worldwide are in need of more help. Even as the organizations are helping out, i do have to wonder how long they could keep up with the work to eradicate food shortage, especially with current news of some facing monetary problems, some not accepting monetized food aid thinking it was profit-related, food supplies are decreasing, etc. They have to think of other different ways to help as well if they knew they are tight in a certain area, like decreasing food supplies and money matters.
Yet, touching on the fact on what Geok Fang stated, the third world countries should also play a part in this crisis. They shouldn't just be dependable on the aid provided by other countries. Their governments should make the effort to help out as well, by providing them with guidance, development of skills as well as to educate their citizens. Hopefully, the governments are not and will not be corrupted. Even if they are, their mindset should be changed or else they will be looked down at, as they are merely showing they are not worthy to be given such a status to look after the people of the country.
Thus, until international food aid organizations is able to convince us that they will carry on working on the elimination of starvation and malnutrition worldwide no matter what till the problem is fully solved, we shall still have wandering thoughts of what might happen eventually if help was insufficient. The future of these famished people could be bleak.
` Hana Diyanah (: [07, 4e1]
Yes, I agree that food shortage is reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International Aid because they are trying to aid the poor by providing food. However, it will be difficult for the country to recover when there is corrupted government for self gain. Furthermore, as there are millions of people facing starvation and malnutrition, the International Aid wont be able to have enough food to distribute to them. Hence, at the same point of time, many people will eventually die. The International Aid will have to guide them on harvesting their agricultural land again for survival, for example, in Haiti, 60% of their food consumption are from their agricultural plantations. Therefore, the United Nations will need to act fast by the help of the other nations to contribute money in order for them to get ready their resources before the rainfall season. However, it is an advantage for the International Aid to keep providing because the poor will only keep relying on the international organizations and not being independent to find a way to survival. Therefore, I think that with the help from both parties, the poor, especially the government which leads the country and the international organizations plays a part in helping to reduce poverty, starvation and malnutrition in the country.
Yes, I agree that food shortage is being reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition. Even though food shortage is being reduced at a slow pace, it is still a decrease and much more people are getting food aid. It is the effort made that matters the most. A single step is the start to an amazing journey that has yet to be experienced. The availability of transport facilities also affects deeply on how food is distributed. Less developed countries have yet to improve on their transport facilities which could speed up the process of food distribution as well as increase the time taken to reduce food shortage. When the time taken to distribute food is reduced, many more people will be able to receive food aid. But, the amount of food available to be given as aid is important. If there are not enough food for everyone, only the neediest of the needy will receive food aid.
Response to Amadeus:
Yes, I also agree with you that education is by far the most effective way to help people living in less developed countries. With education, people will be able to work, earn money, afford to buy food and other necessities. Money truly does reign over, almost, everything around us.
I agree that countries facing food shortage & malnutrition can reduce this problem through International aid. However, there is a limit to ho far that aid can help. Aid such as food supplies and living materials can only help them so far. These can only help them on a short term basis and not in the long run. The immediate effects of giving them food supplies and other necessities is that it reduces the food shortage in that country and that its people would have a meal to eat. However, these may lead them to be dependent on the aid given. Aid in the form of help in building infrastructure such as roads, and educating them on how to create a sustainable place to live for themselves,will help moved them into progress and development. Thus becoming no longer dependent on the aid given. The aid would act as a boost or a stepping stone for a better standard of living. This will teach the people independent of their own well being and may allow them to help other countries in need in the future.
~Danial~
REDO
Yes, I do agree to a certain extent that food shortage is reduced in countries that face starvation and malnutrition through International Aid. They are here to help countries with people who are suffering from starvation and malnutrition. For example, more than half of the people (One out of four children) in Haiti suffers from malnutrition and many are starving even till now. The World Food Programme steps in to aid Hatians. For example (from the research I had done), one year after the Haiti Earthquake in 2010, children have no place to study and homes were destroyed. The WFP helped these students by providing them with at least one meal of nutritious food each day in school. This will help these students to be motivated to come to school to study and also on the other hand help them build up their lack of nutrients. But also, people must also help themselves instead of being to reliant on these International Organizations. If they are too reliant, these programmes to help them might not be long lasting. Hence, International Aid will be a success if the people who are suffering are willing to help themselves and their country to step out of poverty too.
(Jolene Seah)
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