“Poverty is the chief reason why people go hungry.”

In the rural areas in developing countries, there are few jobs and few chances to earn money, so people in these areas can’t buy food. This is the cycle of poverty.

 

The last summit was held in 1996, and it was estimated to be about 840 million people who were chronically hungry. The leaders of the summit are planning to spend US $60 billion to reduce the incidence of hungry.

 

Clean water and fresh food are concentrated on the wealthy countries, so the poor countries can’t get adequate food and water.

 

It is more serious problem than I thought. There is a big difference between the rich countries and the poor countries and it is not easy to reduce the huge difference, I thought…

 

The Problem of Food Waste

The Chinese citizens have tackled a serious problem about food waste. The campaign that recommended kids to eat without leaving anything was held.

According to China Daily, the food waste accounts for about 70% of the country’s garbage.

 

 750 restaurants have started the campaigns to decrease the amount of food waste. For example, they serve smaller dishes than usual or provide doggy bags to cut down the leftover food. People in China have discussed about “clean your plate” campaign by using SNS.

 

With the growth of China’s national strength, the Chinese people tend to spend extravagantly for something. This will bring a bad influence to not only their own country but also other countries.

To solve the problem of food waste, we should start from what we can do easily.

 

 

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In the chapter 3....

Staple foods are mostly produced by the farmers in developing countries such as Asian and African countries. Wheat, rice, maize, cocoa, coffee, potato, sugar and so on. Have you ever thought “who grows what?” the farmers in these countries are forced to concentrate on few varieties of crops, but it led to a serious result. They could get few benefit from monocropping because the term they could cultivate crops was limited, it led to slack in product quality control. The author emphasized the importance of switching to intercropping(mixed cropping) in developing countries in this chapter.

 

After reading the chapter of the book I chose

“Monocropping dominates the Western-style.” The Western countries cultivated crops such as maize, millet, wheat. These products were cultivated a few thousand years ago. However, the intensive system of Western agriculture had often faced difficult problems. However, it could survive the first time because the government gave the farmers large amount of subsidy. Secondly, more serious problem had occurred. It is the problem of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy(BSE)－that is “mad cow disease.” On the contrary, it brought the big change for the Western agriculture. The farmers decided to switch to organic agriculture. It was quickly spread all over the world. In any case, it would be hard that the intensive system of Western agriculture can survive in the future because it has many risks.

 

I did not know how long ago the agriculture was existed until I read this chapter of the book. I thought mono-agriculture is not good for the country because it will have so many risks to survive and will not be able to survive so long. So, whole countries should never adopt it.