What Causes Hunger Around the World - Essay Example

Food is not accessible to everyone. Some governments, for example, steal food from their people. They might buy large quantities of rice on the world market and store it in warehouses hoping to resell it when the price goes up, instead of giving it to the people who need it most. This is a serious problem. Also, many poor countries have bad infrastructure. They simply lack the ports, railways, and roads that are needed to distribute food to rural areas. If a country lacks a port to bring in cargo it can be much more difficult to feed people. In Africa, this has long been a problem. Fortunately, new infrastructure is being built by the Chinese there which will hopefully alleviate the problem.

            Hunger is a terrible problem. But the cause is not necessarily or simply a lack of food. In order to solve this problem, we need to empower people to build up their infrastructure so as to have better access to food.