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Allison Choi 7G 9/25/09  Prompt:Your generation is facing many problems. Identify one of the problems and propose some solutions to it.  **Saving World  Hunger**  Did you know that every 3.6 seconds, someone dies of starvation? One of the generation’s biggest problems is world hunger. World hunger has been the problem for decades. There are thousands of starving people in Africa who are not getting enough food and nutrition to support their bodies. World hunger and malnutrition needs to be eradicated immediately, and I propose my solution of addressing this problem; which I believe are to find out about food provision organizations and groups, education of the people about this plight, and exploiting agricultural biotechnology. The first step is to research about food-providing programs and technology which will supplement the hunger of the world. We must identify the spots and parts of the world which are in need. Programs like Food for Life, UN World Food Programme, UNICEF/UNESCO, the FRB (Food Resources Bank), CACFP (Child and Adult Food Program) and Food and Nutrition Service are organizations which provide food for free or for very little price to the poor families around the world. Various other NGO’s (non-governmental organizations) which produce and deliver food to the people can also aid this poverty. This is a very crucial step in combatting famine. The next thing to do would be to educate the people about this hunger epidemic, and maintaining proper health care, eating, and nutrition. Many starving people are uneducated about this stuff. They do not know what is essential for good health for their bodies. WHO-the World Health Organization can teach the people in Africa about health and body care. the people who can at least eat 3 decent meals a day should also know about this issue, including youngsters. It’s time that wealthier people knew about this problem, and took measures to solve it. Educating people means educating everyone. Some people can take simple actions which will make a huge difference. There is a basic program called FreeRice, in which you have to match the correct vocabulary word and if you get a question correct donates 20 grams of rice. You can feed a whole child, just by clicking your mouse a few times! A final step in fighting against world hunger is also harnessing the usage of agricultural biotechnology. The biggest problem in Africa, why they are starving, is because they have infertile, hard soil, which is the worst soil for farming. Because the people cannot farm, they cannot produce crops and food, which is why the people is starving everywhere. We cannot continuously feed the mouths of the poor, starving Africans with food organizations and programs. At some point, they are going to have to generate food for themselves. Some agricultural biotechnology uses are saving and inlaying precious, fertile topsoil, cotton and wheat tilling, and preventing fertilized sediment from running off into rivers and streams. Besides, biotechnology also helps the crops turn out to be more vitamin-enriched. Biotech scientists are researching ways to prevent drought, soil toxicity, and flooding from interfering with farming as well. Citizens must also endeavor to at least try and savor food for the poor. They can participate in events like fundraisers for raising money for food for the poor, and donate food to the food bank. Every effort possible should be made to abolish world hunger and poverty. Starvation can be solved by supplying the poor with food from charity, educating the impoverished and the wealthy about this problem, and operating agricultural biotechnology. This problem is getting worse and worse by every decade. It’s up to us to solve this problem for the greater good of the world.