Category: Food Shortage

Benjamin Seebohm Rowntrees 1899 study in York established that poverty could be measured through the use of a poverty line (Llewellyn, Agu and Mercer, 2015, p.44). The poverty line is defined as a level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor (Definition of poverty line, 2020). In 2017/18, after housing…

Genetically modified (GM) foods have been a popular topic of debate for many years. The New Humanitarian reported that a clause was put into the 2013 United States agriculture bill to ban their department of agriculture from stopping, or preventing, the growth of GM crops (Kindra, 2013). Which leads to question what the real issue…

Introduction In Bjorn Lomborg article, The Truth About the Environment, he discusses the four big environmental fears that environmentalists worry about although he argues that environmental conditions are better now then they have ever been in the past. Lomborg makes the argument of there being more food produced in the world now then there has…

Most people believe starvation exists in poverty-infested neighborhoods because they themselves don’t realize hard times can strike at any moment for anyone no matter what their economic status is. However thats usually the lesser problem. Without a doubt, the problem is not being able to get food to the individuals who need it. Each day…

Overview Nepal is a small (147181 sq. Km) landlocked country situated between China in the north and India in the south. Nepal has got a diversified geography. Its topographical feature ranges from low land tarai (60 m) to the highest point (Mount Everest, 8848 m) in the earth. Agriculture in Nepal provides employment opportunities to…

Increase in Food items Prices as per Pakistan Bureau of Statistics: Pulse moong (19.74%), Pulse gram(18.2%), Chicken (17.53%), Eggs (14.28%), Wheat(12.63%), Besan(12.09%), Fresh vegetables(11.7%), Pulse mash(10.29%), Gur(9.49%), Beans(8.09%), Wheat flour (7.42%), Pulse masoor(7.33%), Condiments and Spices(7.15%), Gram whole (6.68%), Sugar(5.07%), Fresh fruits(3.93%), Mustard oil(2.87%), Wheat products(2.64%), Vegetable ghee(2.18%), Rice(1.2%), Fish(1.19%) and Dry fruits(1.09%). Decreased: Onions…

Intro: Zambrero launched its first store and Mexican with a mission in 2005 when entrepreneur Sam Prince realised that Australia lacked a healthy choice of Mexican cuisine. Sam was motivated to start Mexican with a mission after being raised by both his parents and hearing what life was like for them while living in Sri…