Hunger in Africa
by Noah Kozakis
History
People in Africa used to not have a problem getting food. Everyone used to only grow food to feed their families and not to make a profit. This all changed when countries in Europe started progress economically introducing a currency system. This led to them taxing Africa. This made Africans want to grow cash crops in order to make money or they would go and work on large plantations.
Why No One Can Get Food
The main reason why people in Africa aren't getting enough food is poverty.” In Sub-Saharan Africa more than 218 million people live in extreme poverty.” In these areas there is a decent amount of food just no one has the money for it. The amount of poverty doesn't only affect the people that are buying the food, it also affects the people that grow it. The people that grow and provide food can only make a small portion of food every year because they don't have proper resources for growing crops like people in other locations have. Natural disasters and conflicts drive people away from their homes or their farms making them lose everything.
Poverty
People cant buy or grow food
because of the economy.
Natural disasters
Natural disaster can ruin
everything that people have worked for.
Conflict within the countries
Conflict can keep people
from growing food or making money.
Direct Link to Holocaust
Having food but not being able to get it is a terrible thing. This was also a problem for the Jews during the Holocaust. The Nazis starved the Jews, they gave them the bare minimal to survive and they worked them like dogs. To make it worse once they stopped working as hard or couldn't anymore they were slaughtered. This is like Africa because they cant get any food and its not their fault. The only difference is that hunger kills the Africans while Nazis killed the Jews.
Works Cited
http://news.trust.org//spotlight/what-creates-food-crises/
http://www.ruralpovertyportal.org/region/home/tags/africa
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/africa/1982-09-01/facing-africas-food-crisis
http://im.rediff.com/money/2010/jul/12poverty6.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_a1AVUIK5Er8/TKq2z-5XnCI/AAAAAAAASvs/xSC6aO1314s/s1600/f1.jpg
http://www.soefartensledere.dk/media/116037/vestafrikanske-militante-i-b_d.gif