Global food crisis

Food shortage is one of the main issue that the world is facing. A very few part of the world is getting food more than their requirement and they are facing over nutrition problems.

But a vast majority of the people in the world are not getting food with enough nutrients and they are facing malnutrition problems.

Global food crisis

Food crisis is a long and extreme shortage of food, which result in deaths. The scarcity of food is caused by environmental, social and economical factors listed below:

Environmental factors

1. Drought is the leading cause of food scarcity in the world. Consecutive years of drought lead to massive crop failure and loss of livestock.
2. Floods destroy crops,  animals and make many people homeless
3. Climate changes has reduced agricultural production. This climate change is caused by deforestation, combustion of fossil fuels through power plants, motor transport and mining of coal and oil etc.

Social factors

One of the major social factor is population growth. The rate of population increases higher than increase in food production. The world is consuming more than it is producing leading to decline in food stock, shortage in storage level and increased food prices due to soaring demand amidst low supply.

The population growth also result in more pollution as people use more fuel in vehicles,  industry, cooking etc.

Economical factors

Economical factors affect the ability of farmers to engage in agricultural production. The agricultural production is more depend upon the farmers and farming. But failure of economic policies of governments to support poor farmers to buy fertilizers,  seeds and pesticides reduce their capacity to produce food.

Reduced investment in agriculture by individuals and governments resulted in reduced food production.

And in the present scenario increased oil prices and transportation charges lead to rise in food prices have made it impossible for majority poor people to afford food prices.