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The last century witnessed tremendous innovations in agricultural methods and the advances of
technology blasting all over the world. However, in some parts of the world, especially in African, famine
and hunger are still a grim reaper of residents which is claimed as the cause of more than ten million
deaths in African in the last half-decade. This essay will discuss some reasons leading to the problem and
some plausible solutions to it.
Firstly, many governments are in the horn of dilemma in implementing these advanced methods and
technology to their agriculture. Because of conflicts and poor education, people in these countries could
not grasp the uses of state-of-the-art machines and modern agricultural methods that could incredibly
increase their agricultural productivity. Secondly, poor existing infrastructure and harsh weather
conditions make African nations and other developing countries still incapable of accessing modern
agriculture. Most soil in African is sand which could neither use to do harvests nor erect roads and
amenities serving agriculture. Besides, extremely hot weather leads to the shortage of irrigation and
harmful insects blast and destroy most harvests. Finally, the indifference and ignorance from many
politicians have taken root in government lead to poor investments in technology and infrastructure itself,
and tend to depend on others countries. However, this continued prevalence of hunger could be probably
dealt with by some solutions.
Elon Musk has claimed that he was ready to sell his six billion dollars from Tesla stock to make none
of people in the world hunger. However, no one in WFP (World Food Programme) do reply his offer.
That leads to the conclusion that money is always available but people need detailed implementing
methods and the right direction of humanitarian funding towards those in need. In other words, with these
funding budgets, the authorities should use it to renovate their agricultural methods and innovate the
facilities serving irrigation and transportation. Moreover, the countries facing the shortage of food should
improve their collaboration with other developed countries. In the short-term, these developed countries
would send immediately foods and goods to support the emergency situations. In the long-term, the
developing countries could be benefited by inheriting the advances of science and the professional
workforce that could help them in the innovation process.
Summarily, the developing countries face myriad problems interfering their agricultural abilities and
leading to lethal famine. Therefore, not only the world, but also them have to make numerous efforts in
technology and cooperation to get risk of hunger.