Thursday, December 31, 2015

Small Farmers Can Make Big Impact In Ending World Hunger!

One person in eight sleeps hungry every night and 2.3 million children die because of malnutrition. Millions more are struggling day and night to earn a good living, but cannot afford a healthy and nutritious food.

Each one getting proper nutritious food can surely end this problem. Adding to it, Several world hunger solutions can solve this problem. One such solution includes government supporting the small-scale farmers.

Some small-scale farmers are barely able to cultivate one-hectare land to feed their families, while most can’t manage to do even that. This wouldn’t be the case, if they got enough support from the government.

Given proper support, these small-scale farmers could potentially produce 80% of the world’s food production and manage to break the cycle of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

However, today these farmers are facing several issues like debt, climate changes, crop diseases and more, which are the prime reasons behind poor agriculture output. Lack of resources and money are some other reasons that are making things difficult for agriculturalists. All these factors are demoralizing farmers.

The lack of resources and support, subsequently, results in lesser agriculture yield, which is further adding to the problem of malnutrition. This is why encouraging and supporting small-scale farmers is essential. Providing support and incentives to farmers can prove beneficial in the following ways-

It will increase food production
It will improve food security and sovereignty
It will eliminate malnutrition
It will reduce poverty

Besides the support of government, numerous organizations and groups have joined the fight towards ending world hunger. Organizations are providing training to farmers, supporting them for bulk seed buying at reasonable prices, and organizing workshops.

These measures are proving to be quite helpful for farmers because they are learning new agricultural techniques that are not only improving their agriculture yield but also significantly reducing the impact of world hunger and malnutrition.

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