An Evaluation of The Problems Surrounding Food Distribution Globally

Failure of the Food Distribution System: A Literature Review

This broad overview of the literature regarding food distribution systems worldwide will attempt to do a few things. First off, it will highlight the key issues surrounding the effects of the world food crisis and its history and how it has been a rising problem for quite some time now. Then it will touch on the role of failed food distribution systems worldwide in creating the food crisis see today. Finally the review will finish with a general idea of the solutions that exist today to solve this devastating issue that is plaguing millions worldwide.

The world food crisis is a problem that exists worldwide, especially in developing third world crisis. According to the World Hunger Foundation on November 29th 2014 the world food crisis affects roughly 1 billion worldwide and is a serious issue the world faces. However, this dilemma is not specific to poor nations, as Stephanie Rogus writes for the Journal of International Affairs that even countries such as Australia, which are industrialized and first world, can in some regions suffer from food insecurity and be affected greatly as a result. In many areas around the globe in both rich and poor nations entire populations are forced to walk hundreds of miles to access food relief according to the Canberra Times of Australia on October 27th 2013. All these sources have one underlying similarity, the world food crisis is an issue that many countries, 1st world and 3rd world alike, are suffering from.

The arguments behind why the world food crisis exists vary article by article. Many assume thats its a lack of food production and that by simply growing more food the problem can be solved. However others, like the United Nations Food and Agriculture Association found that it was wasting of the food that already exists and that one third of all food is thrown away instead of used to feed those need it the most. The most common of all the literature surrounding the conditions that fostered this world food crisis happen to be that of the failure of global food distribution systems to adequately and effectively distribute food to those in remote villages who need it them most, this is according to both Bloomberg Magazine and the Angola Press Agency. So then the question arises, if the literature exists to explain why the problem was created, does it also explain how it can be solved?

The answer to this question is yes, for a number of reasons. A whole host of solutions exist to eliminate the above problems highlighted to explain the creation of the food crisis. A few discuss the need to boost agricultural production and as a result feel that biotechnology and genetically modified foods would be the appropriate way to do so according to the Journal of International Affairs in 2014. However, the majority of all the literature on the topic supports the idea of local organic farming to boost food access on a local level so that people in remote villages who are cut off from industrialized food production will have just as much access to food as everybody else which the Scandinavian Center for Soil and Farming found to be the case.

With the literature proving that the world food crisis is an immense world wide issue that is affecting millions it has been shown that it is a global problem. Then with the roots of said problem found through numerous pieces of evidence the conditions that created this food crisis were weeded out. And finally with the conditions being isolated the evidence then obviously explained said conditions could be eliminated to also alleviate the impact of the conditions which is the world food crisis, saving millions of lives. However with the conditions that fostered this crisis and also the solutions both being contested and heavily debated it will some time before a true solution to the real problem will be found and placed into action.