ENT- 436 Benchmark - Design Challenge

World Hunger 4

World Hunger.

Tamara Weatherton

Grand Canyon University

ENT-436

World Hunger.

Problem: Thousands of people go to bed hungry every day yet there is enough food to feed everyone. This statistic demonstrates the percentage of imbalance in the world.

Many people worldwide have inadequate or small piece land or adequate income to buy or grow food. Approximately 820 million people around the world suffer from chronic undernourishment. Annually, people all over the world gather around to celebrate World Food Day on 16th October. This event is used to symbolize the commitment to eradicate lifetime worldwide hunger. To increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a developing country, child undernutrition should come to an end. The largest population of people suffering from hunger is in Asia with approximately 526 million hungry people. Approximately one-third of the food for human consumption produced in the world gets wasted or lost.

Poverty is the major cause of world hunger. Families affected by poverty cannot afford nutritious food which leads to undernourishment making it difficult to earn money for healthy foods. War and conflict are also factors leading to world hunger. South Sudan civil war led to abandoned fields and mass displacement. The war resulted to crop failure combined with inflated rates of imported foods making them expensive for low-income earners and a rise in food insecurity. World hunger is not only about lack of access f food but also lack of access to the right nutrients. Humans need various foods that provide essential health benefits. Most families rely on just one or two staple foods hence not getting enough essential vitamins and macronutrients.

World hunger is a huge problem that requires creative approaches to help solve it. This problem can be solved by applying emerging and innovative technologies such as analytics, the internet of things (IoT), and blockchain. Advances in farming methods and genetic engineering will enhance the growth of crops efficiently and affordable which means more available food sources for everyone.

Gene-edited crops are an essential and quicker method of breeding. This technology could assist in the eradication of world hunger as new companies are set up to evolve nutritious food to deliver high-quality ingredients that can complete transparency. The new technology will assist researchers in the correction of genetic defects. 3D food printing is also a technology that would be a remedy to the world hunger problem. This technology can be good and healthy for the environment since it converts ingredients such as proteins, from algae or insects into nutritious foods. 3D food printing also offers a vast possibility which makes the consumption such as meat, more sustainable.

Through a farming management concept that incorporates the internet of things technology, precision agriculture may be a solution to help feed the world with nutritious food. This technology uses Global Positioning Systems in achieving accuracy when driving in the field to provide navigation and position anywhere in the world. This technology can be used by agricultural companies that combine unmanned drones and tractors to assist in future precision by farmers in making smart production decisions hence increase in crop yields and efficiency of farms.

In conclusion, the purpose of this research is to examine how technology can help in the eradication of world hunger. Through technology, the thousands of people that go to bed hungry every day would be reduced.

Reference

Dil, A. S. (2003). Toward eradicating hunger and poverty: Life and work of Per Pinstrup-Andersen. San Diego, CA: Intercultural Forum.