Poverty Eradication and Food Security #WCY2014

Have you ever seen this picture?

This is the picture which won the Pulitzer Award in 1993, taken by Kevin Carter in Sudan.

Then what do you think about this picture?

The World Food Summit of 1996 defined FOOD SECURITY as existing “when all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active life”. The kid in the picture surely didn't feel secure about food.

 

(Source: Feed the Future Guide, USAID, May 2010)

The infographic shows the four main components of food security. The first one is AVAILABILITY. The problem is that we have to feed a lot of people but we don't have a land to produce the food. As a soon-to-be-food-technologist, I want to make FOOD WHICH CONTAIN ENOUGH NUTRITION like what astronaut eat, but with a cheap price. I read an article about China and Japan which develop the agriculture sector by PLANTING IN BUILDING. I think, this can be a great solution. For you who haven't heard about P 2000 Z, is a biofeltilizer which contains micro-organisms to fertile bad ground. Prof Zum, who invented this thing, have worked in Dubai to fertile the land.

If we already have the food, we have to have MONEY TO ACCESS it. But some people in this world are living in POVERTY. According to Wikipedia, poverty is general scarcity or death, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Yes, money isn't everything, but in real life, we really need that. We can buy basic human needs such as food, house, and clothes by money. A lot of people don't have money. On the other side, some people is wasting money for something we don't really need, like WAR. WE HAVE TO STOP THAT! Poor people also have to have an introspection to themselves. Why can they be poor? EDUCATION is one important factor.

After we have money, the government must STABILIZE the amount of food. In fact, our land that supose to plant the food we need is abused by other things. For example, the rich one want to have more money then they plant more palm trees instead of wheat. We need a rule to limit the production of other plant. We must have a PRIORITY for everyone.

The last one is UTILIZATION. We have the food, money, and nice system. What must we do next? We must have a good knowledge about FOOD SANITARY. The producer must know about ISO 22000, an international standard for food, ISO 14000 for waste, and HACCP (try to search what is the meaning of that, if you don't know). We, as a society, also have to know the basic sanitation such as washing hand. Although it is simple, sometimes we forget about it.

For those who doesn't care about poverty and food security:

Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.