"Food prices could double in the next 20 years and demand in 2050 will be 70 percent higher than now," as stated by a UK charity. Our food system as of right now is completely failing the all aroudn the world. There are over 925 million people go hungry each day. The reason for the hunger increase is dyue to inflation, oil hikes, climate change as well as the scramble for land and water. Before taking into account the climate changes that prices of food is expected to double by the year 2030. On top of all the price hikes and natural disasters that have been happening this is the last thing people really want to think about now. The failure in our food system is being blamed on the failure of our governments to regulate and invest. The problem now is where do the small second world nations sit in the food system. With smaller countries now growing into larger ones, how do we supply even more food for them and also keep the people already in the system fed? Major changes must be done before the prices of food increase to a point where it will be nearly impossible for the normal family household to buy food.
I think that this whole situation is just crazy. But yet again there is a part of me that thinks we have plenty of supplies here in America to feed thousands upon thousands of people. We Americans have more food than we actually need to survive each day and there are people starving for just a scrap of food. Overall, I think that Americans need to consume less food and send more food to the nations who really need it. We also just need to get rid of the hunger problem in our own country first. Families who have plenty of food should simply give some away so that the people in their neighborhoods and in their towns can at least eat something each day. If we learn to cut down on how much we consume then we can solve this ever growing problem. And in order to solve this problem we need to start on the individual level and cut down there and just simply expand that out until hunger is no longer the issue in our world today as well as our future.
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