As everyone knows there are people that are starving around the world today. The most of this starvation takes place to the south of Sahara. People are dying because they don’t have anything to eat and this has a lot of different causes, such as Western World politics and Third World politics among others. In this article you’ll find out some more about why there are people who are starving and what has to be done to finish it. And you’ll also see that it isn’t as easy as it might look to defeat the starvation of the world.

Today there are about 700 million people that are starving and 18 - 20 million of them die each year because they don’t have anything to eat. This has a lot of causes and many steps must be taken and many questions must be answered before everyone in the world has satisfied their hunger.

The thought that there isn’t enough food for everyone in the world is totally wrong because we have enough food resources to support the population of the whole world. But because of different politics in both the starving and rich countries and the Western World’s way of perfectionism all food don’t get eaten up. This is because many western countries throws away large quantities of perfectly good food because they are to ugly to eat and the profits from selling them aren’t enough. For example in Sweden we have more seed than we need so we burn them up to get energy to among other things heating up houses. So instead of selling it cheap or giving it away to some poor country we burn them because we wouldn’t get enough profit from selling it because the world prices are too low.

France is a large food producer and produces a lot of crops, for example potatoes. But all the ugly, too big and malformed ones get thrown away to rotten either by burying tons of them into the ground or just dumping them at some field. Another example of unnecessary wasting of food is the tomato festival in Spain that occurs every year. At the end of the year when the tomato cultivators have too much tomatoes which they don’t know what to do with they arrange a tomato festival where a lot of people bath and wrestle in tomatoes and throw them at each other.

All these examples are what happens when you have too much food and you’re too greedy to share with others that have a lot less. But I shall not only blame the farmers because it’s the politicians of that country that have the ultimate and final responsibility. When certain countries are too proud to admit that they have a problem with their people starving they just say no to foreign help and this is a big problem. But also the rich Western World’s politicians are to blame because they don’t want to put too much food out on the market because then some prices of the crops would drop and make farmers go out of business and would maybe be bad for their economy. They have to decide what is more important, that some people that work with the food in their own country go out of business or that a lot of people starve and maybe die.

There are no certain rules to be followed by politicians in neither the rich countries nor the poor ones or when you’re a producer of the food. They must look to how the situation is at the moment and what most people would benefit from. Who is worth the most? A couple of hundred farmers (that produces the food), a couple of thousand industrial workers (that process the food into products) or tens of thousands of starving people. That is the thing these politicians have to decide. There is no right or wrong it’s just more or less bad or more or less good. In short you could say, who is it that deserves the support? People already rich or starving poor ones.

The rich world’s politicians must put some pressure on the politicians of the poor countries. They have to make them be self-supporting on food by helping them modernising their way of farming and so on. Both the rich country and the poor one would benefit from it as people in the poor country wouldn’t be starving no more and the farmers in the rich country would stay in business. But then comes a potential problem. When the poor country has enough food for themselves and has some left over they might want to sell that food on the world market. And then the rich and the poor country would be competing against each others in selling their food. And because the poor country probably has lower salaries and probably lower domestic prices they’d sell the food cheaper than the rich one which would make the world prices drop. The rich country would then put customs on other countries’ products to help their farmers. Then the producers (farmers, processing industries) in the poor country would go out of business. It’s a vicious circle that has to be solved and sorted out. As displayed in this article people in the rich parts of the world needs to be less selfish and help other countries not just by supporting them with food but by modernising their way of producing food. The change must be in attitude against others all around the world