Food Shortage

[Chilwell]

Food shortage is one situation in a nation that causes some consequences. Some countries are liable to food shortages and then they're left with less economic growth which they have to fix. Food and Agriculture has its own impact on the economy of a country and if left unattended to will definitely cause some negativities. There are correction processes that must be followed by countries that experience shortage and the key process should be diverting the focus of that nation to solely agriculture.
  It's not an intentional action that causes shortage, sometimes it's climatic, sometimes it's due to less resources, so in such situations, there has to be alternative ways to generate resources for these nations. The government in turn ensures that they infuse more on planting and harvesting, so even as the food shortage tend to occur, there'll always be residual foods in store that'll go round and be available for the people.

In my community, food shortage is a significant issue, but it's not solely due to agricultural problems. Actually, food production has improved, and there's sufficient food available in my area. But, the main challenge is that many people do not have the financial means to purchase the food they need.

[JoyMarsha]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

[Celsius]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

If a country does not have adequate irrigation, agricultural production will generally decrease.  When agricultural production decreases, food shortage occurs automatically in the country. Moreover, if the farmer does not get enough capital, especially the government loan, then the farmer will never be able to produce good food, resulting in food shortage. Moreover, due to the amount of plastic waste scattered in the environment, arable land is gradually decreasing, thus food production is decreasing to a large extent than before.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Food shortage is not what is happening for the first time, this has been what the entire world had been facing for long and one of the reasons to the cause of this is poor performance in the agricultural sector, we need to encourage people to go into farming and help create enough availability of food for human consumption, this will also increase the economy growth as well reduction in the poverty level for the people to have a sustainable life.

[bisdak40]

Food shortage is not what is happening for the first time, this has been what the entire world had been facing for long and one of the reasons to the cause of this is poor performance in the agricultural sector, we need to encourage people to go into farming and help create enough availability of food for human consumption, this will also increase the economy growth as well reduction in the poverty level for the people to have a sustainable life.

Food shortages have been around for a long time, and a big reason is that farming isn't doing as well as it should. We need to encourage more people to start farming so there’s enough food for everyone. Plus, it can help the economy grow and reduce poverty, improving many people's lives.

[Mr_kappa]

Food shortage is not what is happening for the first time, this has been what the entire world had been facing for long and one of the reasons to the cause of this is poor performance in the agricultural sector, we need to encourage people to go into farming and help create enough availability of food for human consumption, this will also increase the economy growth as well reduction in the poverty level for the people to have a sustainable life.

If we can find the main causes of food shortage, it is possible to reduce the food shortage, so we have to find the main causes of food shortage to reduce the food shortage.
The main reason is lack of proper knowledge in food production.

A farmer can produce the maximum yield from his land only when he can take proper care of the crop he is growing, timely fertilizing, irrigation mains, removal of weeds, right time harvesting etc. If a farmer is well informed about his land can get production.

[Stompix]

Speaking about small farmers, I have seen many times how they go bankrupt or end business on purpose, because they cant produce «EU standard» product, nor ready to sell their products for nothing, to have them imported and exported back with high price and labeled «EU standard». Example, local farmers sold milk for nothing, it has been imported to other country to a factory, where it has been sterilized, then it is exported back and become EU standard milk with a price of x3-x4 from origin.

You cannot export milk that hasn't been at least pasteurized from any country in the EU, so this scenario is simply fantasy, nobody is going to buy not-treated milk, ship it in a cold tank to a factory outside the country, treat it, and then resell back in the country.
Milk pasteurization is a simple process, it would make no sense to ship it, if those buyers were interested in this they could simply set up a processing plant next to the area where they buy the milk from, if you're driving that truck for more than 100 miles to the factory you're already losing money.

The killer for small farms is the fat composition since you need to bump the cow feed to keep the requirements and the daily production, again you need constant, that's why big farms win countries with subsidies are killing small ones in others, but shipping milk twice across the border even with Schengen, neah, when ALDI has a 48 hour requirement for fresh meat/milk/eggs delivery they won't deal with stuff stuck one week in transit.

[0t3p0t]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

The governments actually have an important role in giving fair budget to research programs, machineries, education and give serious attention to agriculture. They also have to protect farmers and the whole sector from illegal smugglers that affects and hurts their effort to sustain the needs of a specific country because if not or the government doesn't care about them then aside from natural calamity things will never be good in the long run if they don't support this sector.

[bitterguy28]

The governments actually have an important role in giving fair budget to research programs, machineries, education and give serious attention to agriculture.

honestly a lot of countries seem to forget about crisis when it comes to education my country is under a serious problem where not many students are doing well and even those who do well in school can't afford to go study and therefore the country is losing so many great minds that could have helped in so many developments but instead forced to work

there is not enough investment to education and development which does not help the country progress better and faster

They also have to protect farmers and the whole sector from illegal smugglers that affects and hurts their effort to sustain the needs of a specific country because if not or the government doesn't care about them then aside from natural calamity things will never be good in the long run if they don't support this sector.

what hurts is sometimes it is the government itself importing products and not supporting the local farmers it can be frustrating for the farmers and demotivating

[Mr_kappa]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

The governments actually have an important role in giving fair budget to research programs, machineries, education and give serious attention to agriculture. They also have to protect farmers and the whole sector from illegal smugglers that affects and hurts their effort to sustain the needs of a specific country because if not or the government doesn't care about them then aside from natural calamity things will never be good in the long run if they don't support this sector.

Public awareness should be created in this regard, farmers should be informed about the use of technology. To deal with food shortage, proper distribution policy of food should be followed, fallow land should be brought under cultivation, maximum production of crops should be ensured on a plot of land.

[Agbe]

Food shortage is one phenomenal that is common to developing countries and this is basically because of due to lack of sufficient investment in the Agricultural base of such nation food shortage can lead to hunger malnutrition among the young generation of countries which has a negative effects on such country the main way to tackle food shortage is through mechanized farming government has to take drastic measures by investing into the Agricultural base and this is only possible through using Agricultural machines like tractors and relevant implement that will help in farming which will boost the Agricultural base and  translate to production of food

[Celsius]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

The governments actually have an important role in giving fair budget to research programs, machineries, education and give serious attention to agriculture. They also have to protect farmers and the whole sector from illegal smugglers that affects and hurts their effort to sustain the needs of a specific country because if not or the government doesn't care about them then aside from natural calamity things will never be good in the long run if they don't support this sector.

Public awareness should be created in this regard, farmers should be informed about the use of technology. To deal with food shortage, proper distribution policy of food should be followed, fallow land should be brought under cultivation, maximum production of crops should be ensured on a plot of land.

In the context of our Bangladesh, if it can be said that most of the farmers usually do not get enough training opportunities, how to cultivate the land, when to apply fertilizer, when to plant crops, if they do not know well, food production decreases at a significant rate. Moreover, the selection of such fertilizers depends on the fertility of the land. Generally, farmers give importance to chemical fertilizers, but in order to get more crop production, farmers should be more aware of the fact that compost fertilizers should be used more instead of chemical fertilizers.

[Agbe]

It is important to note that, food shortage can happen in any country that experience something like water pollution, erosion, war, rapid population growth, limited access to resources like loan, dependence on food imports, no access roads for farmers to bring out their harvested foodstuffs

The governments actually have an important role in giving fair budget to research programs, machineries, education and give serious attention to agriculture. They also have to protect farmers and the whole sector from illegal smugglers that affects and hurts their effort to sustain the needs of a specific country because if not or the government doesn't care about them then aside from natural calamity things will never be good in the long run if they don't support this sector.

Public awareness should be created in this regard, farmers should be informed about the use of technology. To deal with food shortage, proper distribution policy of food should be followed, fallow land should be brought under cultivation, maximum production of crops should be ensured on a plot of land.

In the context of our Bangladesh, if it can be said that most of the farmers usually do not get enough training opportunities, how to cultivate the land, when to apply fertilizer, when to plant crops, if they do not know well, food production decreases at a significant rate. Moreover, the selection of such fertilizers depends on the fertility of the land. Generally, farmers give importance to chemical fertilizers, but in order to get more crop production, farmers should be more aware of the fact that compost fertilizers should be used more instead of chemical fertilizers.

I get what you're saying and I agree with you because for a country to have food sufficiency the farming population needs to have a good background knowledge of farming which includes the entire process involved in the farming process which includes clearing, planting and harvesting process also having a great knowledge of season either raining season or dry season and know when to plant and nature theses crops that are planted till the time that they are due for harvesting is improving when it comes to having food in a country this is the main reason why government of countries should take it as a duty to sponsor programs that will aim at enlightening the citizens about farming so they could be sufficiently informed concerning agricultural processes

[Joeboy]

Food shortage is one situation in a nation that causes some consequences. Some countries are liable to food shortages and then they're left with less economic growth which they have to fix. Food and Agriculture has its own impact on the economy of a country and if left unattended to will definitely cause some negativities. There are correction processes that must be followed by countries that experience shortage and the key process should be diverting the focus of that nation to solely agriculture.
  It's not an intentional action that causes shortage, sometimes it's climatic, sometimes it's due to less resources, so in such situations, there has to be alternative ways to generate resources for these nations. The government in turn ensures that they infuse more on planting and harvesting, so even as the food shortage tend to occur, there'll always be residual foods in store that'll go round and be available for the people.

In my community, food shortage is a significant issue, but it's not solely due to agricultural problems. Actually, food production has improved, and there's sufficient food available in my area. But, the main challenge is that many people do not have the financial means to purchase the food they need.

My own community as well as the community around us depends solely on Agriculture and as such we are always planting all through the ear, irrespective of this we tend to experience food shortage especially during dry seasons. We hardly plant during this season due to shortage of water in the community accompanied by no rain fall.
Another primary cause of food shortage in my community is theft. Young teenagers mostly go around people's farm stealing their crops which they will later eat all by themselves.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

There are some cases, that the greedy of businessmen are the reason why they lead to such situations. They resort to unfair means to create difficulties for farmers, who are then forced to sell their produce at a lower price. The businessmen buy the produce and hoard it for months until the demand goes up, thus earning a higher profit. This creates food shortages and affects people's livelihoods. Unfortunately, this is a common practice in many countries, and it can only be stopped if people take action against these unethical practices.

Whatever situation that the citizens find themselves whether good or bad depends on the kind of leaders they have, any country that has a bad or corrupt leader, their economic situation will be at risk and there people will have to suffer and they won’t mind if they are hurting their people feelings or not and in this case if God did not intervene, people will continue to suffer in pains.
So it’s good for people to always elect in a good and responsible leader that the people’s interests is their priority.