- Food Price Watch - November 2013
Where does YOUR food come from? How much does YOUR food cost?...
Food prices worldwide are getting increasingly higher by the day. The weather has been a great affect on food supply and farm productions. The declining amount of farmed goods was one of the reasons that caused the inflation of food prices.
East Africa 2011- severe drought: East Africa experienced one of the most severe drought in 60 years. 10 million people were affected by this drought in Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia. This drought has caused crop failures and limited food supply in these regions. "All the predictions show seasonal rains are far away and the situation will deteriorate -- we have not even reached the peak of the crisis," said Dr. Unni Krishnan. Refugee camps had to withhold thousands of people, with many of the population leaving their home country to escape from the food crisis. The drought has made the price of food shoot high up and millions of the victims are suffering from hunger. Farmers had lost two of the rainy seasons to harvest which is very rare in their region.
In Somalia, where the government does not control the entire country, the situation has become harder to control. Over 2.5 million people in Somalia are affected by the drought when at the same time, a civil war is active in the country. Foreign countries find it very difficult to deliver aid into the country because of the ongoing conflict. Food prices in poor areas have significantly inflated because of the situation they have been living in. By reading about food crisis, I think we should start being aware of the food waste we create daily. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that food waste worldwide is approximately 1.3 billion tons per year. Let us all not waste food and rather send food to places that do need food. They need YOUR help.
The Guardian states that more than half of the children under 5 in this region died from the drought from hunger and malnutrition. A refugee camp called Dadaab can only hold 90,000 but this drought had created an extra amount of 370,000 people joining the camp.
Sites Used:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/food-price-watch-november-2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_East_Africa_drought
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/08/east.africa.drought/index.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/east-africa-drought-disaster-report
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/04/drought-east-africa-climate-change
http://www.unep.org/wed/quickfacts/
East Africa 2011- severe drought: East Africa experienced one of the most severe drought in 60 years. 10 million people were affected by this drought in Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia. This drought has caused crop failures and limited food supply in these regions. "All the predictions show seasonal rains are far away and the situation will deteriorate -- we have not even reached the peak of the crisis," said Dr. Unni Krishnan. Refugee camps had to withhold thousands of people, with many of the population leaving their home country to escape from the food crisis. The drought has made the price of food shoot high up and millions of the victims are suffering from hunger. Farmers had lost two of the rainy seasons to harvest which is very rare in their region.
In Somalia, where the government does not control the entire country, the situation has become harder to control. Over 2.5 million people in Somalia are affected by the drought when at the same time, a civil war is active in the country. Foreign countries find it very difficult to deliver aid into the country because of the ongoing conflict. Food prices in poor areas have significantly inflated because of the situation they have been living in. By reading about food crisis, I think we should start being aware of the food waste we create daily. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that food waste worldwide is approximately 1.3 billion tons per year. Let us all not waste food and rather send food to places that do need food. They need YOUR help. The Guardian states that more than half of the children under 5 in this region died from the drought from hunger and malnutrition. A refugee camp called Dadaab can only hold 90,000 but this drought had created an extra amount of 370,000 people joining the camp.
Sites Used:
http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/publication/food-price-watch-november-2013
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_East_Africa_drought
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/08/east.africa.drought/index.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/east-africa-drought-disaster-report
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/04/drought-east-africa-climate-change
http://www.unep.org/wed/quickfacts/
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