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People blame the fact that world hunger is because the population of the world is growing but its not true. This graph shows the amount of food wasted per capita to show you that if we were to stop wasting as much food as we do, we could feed the whole world and world hunger wouldn't be an issue.

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Bailey Mellow-Myth #6- More Free Trade will help feed the people of every country

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Bailey Mellow-Myth #6- More Free Trade will help feed the people of every country

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This article debunks the myth that free trade in food would solve world hunger. Demand for imported rice from the US, Vietnam, and Thailand has dropped the demand for local rice in Ghana, a huge industry there. Over 2 billion people work in rice growing and processing nationwide.
"Free trade in rice has increased hunger and poverty among subsistence farmers in at least three developing countries".

"Its study supported what many advocacy groups have long suspected — that free trade policies exacerbated hunger and poverty, rather than helping countries out of it".

http://rajpatel.org/2009/10/30/free-trade-in-rice-can-lead-to-more-hunger/

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"Ghanaian rice farmers in Dalun, Northern Region, had seen demand for their product drop 75 percent since 2000 as rice from the United States, Vietnam and Thailand flooded the local market" (rajpatel.org), in other words, free trade is not causing hunger, rather it is making demand for local businesses lessen.

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"The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed" (Gandhi). The problem is not having too many people on this earth it is the amount of food that is wasted on a daily basis. People are throwing away food without thinking of the people in need who are starving. If people could waste less food and help others there could be less people who are hungry.

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The green revolution may be producing more food than every before, but the producers are choosing who they sell to and what countries to provide for. Leaving places in need with no additional help. With their excessive use of the soil, it is causing it to be unusable quicker which will cause more food shortages later on but an abundance now.

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one article debunks the myth that US aid will help world hunger by saying that, "Once we learned that hunger results from antidemocratic political and economic structures that trap people in poverty, we realized that we couldn’t end hunger for other people" (globalissues.org).

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Myth: More US aid will help the hungry - Global Issues

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This part of the globalissues.org web site reposts chapter 10 from the highly acclaimed book World Hunger: 12 Myths. This chapter is titled: Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry

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More U.S Aid will help the hungry.

In this article, it explains specifically what foreign is. It can "only reinforce, not change, the status quo. In other words, it has nothing to do with hunger in foreign countries. It only helps the US prosper in "free trade and free market exports". They impose it is better to use this money towards any budget for debt relief for "basic health, education, and ant-poverty laws".

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Countries shown in green are net exporters meaning they ship out more food than they receive opposed to the countries shown in red that are net importers, countries that receive more food than they make. The world today is saying that there isn't enough food in the world to support everyone and yet, there is more than enough food for everyone. Studies have shown that countries that are considered "hungry" are only hungry because their government restricts the amount of food each citizen receives. North Korea is a prime example of this.

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More U.S. Aid will help the hungry:
According to the article, one reason why this myth is inaccurate is because, "..it can dangerously undercut local food production in the recipient country". Researching more about this, it is due to other farmers having to lower their price to compete to sell their product against ours. This then depletes the local production in the country. When U.S gives aid to help the hungry in other countries, it is a short term solution than can create a long term problem.

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Making more food does not solve hunger issues because it is sold and targeted to wealthier countries who can afford to purchase it. From the International Journal for Rural Development, it says the Green Revolution is not effective in every country because of a difference in soil.
Miya Cole

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Even though there is new agricultural technology to produce more food, not everyone can afford the food that is produced. -Emily Jones

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A larger food supply will not have a long term effect on hunger issues. This is due to the fact that food is sold to and is more available for wealthier countries. Distribution of food is not equal amongst nations.

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Shaylin Grant Myth #7- More US Aid Will Help the Hungry 

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Shaylin Grant Myth #7- More US Aid Will Help the Hungry 

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"...food aid often does not target the hungry...such aid constitutes only a fraction of total U.S. bilateral foreign aid, hovering around 9 percent during the 1990's. Moreover, only about 5 percent of total aid is for emergency relief." The goal of foreign aid does not always equal feeding the starving.

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Food aid often does not target the hungry - Global Issues

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This part of the globalissues.org web site reposts chapter 10 from the highly acclaimed book World Hunger: 12 Myths. This chapter is titled: Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry

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According to an article we found small farms are 200-1,000 percent more productive than large farms. We also found that smaller farms produce more than 10 times the value of output per unit area in comparison to larger farms. All in all we feel that we need more small farms because they have better quality food and they are more productive.

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The world produces 17% more food per person than it did 30 years ago. Many people don't have enough land to grow food or income to purchase any.

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Nature "its too easy to blame nature. Human made forces are making people increasingly vulnerable to nature events, like hurricanes or drought"

Starvation can only hit the poorest for example millions of people live on the brink of disaster mostly in Africa because they're more deprived if those rich resources. The people with the power will have the overruling factor of where the food is taken and distributed, in that case its not nature that is to be blamed for starvation but people themselves.

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"Human made forces are making people increasingly vulnerable to natural events, like hurricanes or drought."

A great example like this would be the dust bowl in the early 1900s, where farmers uprooted the natural grass of that region that held the soil in. The farmers made lots of momey off of wheat, and this wasn't a problem until a drought. Normally, the grass could normally withstand droughts, but because the grass was removed for farming, this allowed mighty winds to carry soil for hundreds of miles.

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Myth #3-Ethan Peterson- there are too many people in the world

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Myth #3-Ethan Peterson- there are too many people in the world

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This is a myth because there are countries that are poor that just cannot afford the food. There is plenty of food in the world but some countries are too poor to buy the food or just cannot obtain the food. For example North Korea has people starving and on very limited rations because their dictator  wont change his policies to make other countries accept them and trade to them.

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Although it may appear that large farms will be the cure to world hunger, producing large amounts of food isn't the solution. These large farms that have been encouraged are rarely in the places of the world that actually need the food. Instead, putting smaller farms in the developing countries that are suffering the most from lack of food would not only help with the famines, but would also promote self-sustainability.

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Smallholder farms contribute substantially to global food production. They also occupy up to 40% of agricultural areas globally. However, people still feel as though large farms are more effective and are the solution to the problem, but these large farms are not as effective because the practices of large farming is not as healthy and beneficial as those of the small farms.

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Tanzania Smallholder Farmers Improving Crop Yields

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70% of the world’s food-insecure people live in rural areas of developing countries where farming is the typical use for land and a dominant source of income, but the high difference between the amount of food produced and the amount of food that could potentially be produced with proper land usage is caused by a lack of agricultural knowledge and resources (seeds, fertilizers, how to effectively rotate crops, etc)

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Almost half of all the food in America is wasted, and globally almost a third of all food produced is wasted

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Myth #3 - McKenzie Marvin: There are too many people in the world

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Myth #3 - McKenzie Marvin: There are too many people in the world

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As a group we discussed an analogy based off of the population of 5 high schools. The population of 15,000 people is a devastating number. It doesn't seem like a lot in comparison to the world as a whole however, when thinking about 5 high schools being wiped out you realize how big of a difference that would make.

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The world produces more than 1 1/2 times enough food to feed everyone on the planet

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Making more food does not solve hunger issues because it is sold and targeted to wealthier countries who can afford to purchase it.
-Brianna MacGregor, Emily Jones, Katie Klotz, Miya Cole

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This video shows the effects of moving factories out the United States in order to get cheaper labor and products. The same idea would pertain to food. As food leaves one country, the prices increase causing a worse living standard. Therefore, more free trade will NOT help feed more people in every country.

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Bittersweet: The Winners and Losers from Free Trade

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"Free trade may exacerbate hunger problems among families in
poor agricultural areas of Latin America where labor markets are uncompetitive, land
rights questionable, or land distribution highly uneven."

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Myth #3 There are too many people in the world - Sammie 

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Myth #3 There are too many people in the world - Sammie 

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This graph shows the relationship between the worlds population vs the famine victims. The red is the worlds population and blue the number of victims which shows there is enough food for our population. If we did not have enough food currently to provide for the whole world our number of deaths would be well over our world population.