HOW TO REDUCE HUNGER IN TANZANIA - ESSAY.
Tanzania is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Kenya, Burundi, Zambia, Malawi and the Indian Ocean. Tanzania borrowed money from MEDC's -> lack of money. The interest rates later rose and Tanzania couldn't pay back. Cuts were made to public services by the MEDC's. The number people in the population rose without any education. Education lack lead to poor land management; not enough money-> malnutrition. Which lastly meant that it created hunger in the country. Low income lead to poverty which then lead to low intake of food. Diseases like Marasmus and Kwashiorkor spread out to children's; disabilities. This meant that they can't work properly later on and have a very low income. This is the poverty cycle which kept on happening. 27,000 deaths of children PER DAY! Can you believe it?
I believe that the best solution to reduce hunger in Tanzania is Farm Africa! This will help them because they teach adults and children how to manage their own livestock and crops in a sustainable and profitable way, befitting the whole community. Improved ways to manage their crops, livestock, forests and access to water. They will be provided by a goat which will cost Farm Africa thirty pounds per goat! Therefore, this will reduce the amount of hunger because they can profit by selling the crops at a high price since they will be very good quality. They can also sell the milk which they are getting by the goat; 3X more than a cow, to the people and earn money from it and use it for their children's education. Their children would be provided with pure nutritious milk which will be a good diet for them and enough protein for the day. This option is sustainable because it helps the locals education and education is something which can be passed onto generations. Education is the key thing to life.
The reason why I rejected the other three options was because the other three options were not as sustainable as this one. They were also not very profitable. Firstly, I rejected drop the debt because it was not a very sensible idea since the MEDC who the LEDC has borrowed money from would not want to lose all their money which they lend to the LEDC’s. Another problem was even if the MEDC agrees to not have the money they gave back, it would still not be helpful to the LEDC because they are not yet developed; they still need money. It will not progress the development of the country by doing this. Secondly, I rejected Alternative food sources because it is not environmentally sustainable option because if the people have not grown up eating insects then they will not be able to eat insects for all their meals and it will disgusting as well. If we would have grown up with eating insects then it would be normal for us to eat insects and we would love it. If we all eat insects at a regular basis then the insects we eat will be extinct and we would run out of them, so it is not sustainable. Lastly, I rejected Family planning group because it is not socially sustainable. You can’t just go up to a family and say that you are only allowed to have 2 kids per family and teach them about having safe sex. This option also involves money but no one is financially supporting it.
However, there is one disadvantage of my decision which is that Farm Africa needs a very big company to financially support them because all the equipment for farming which they will be giving out to the farmers will cost them a lot of money. Paying 30 pounds per goat will not be cheap as well, so they will need a lot of money and great donations from very rich organisations.
There are some good points about my rejected options they are, drop the debt will help the LEDC for a time that they will not have to pay the money back and losing much more money than they borrowed which will very strongly financially support them for a short period of time. Alternative food source would be a good thing to do since it will mean that nobody will be hungry and the food will not be unaffordable for the poor people. It will be eating insects which will have much higher nutrition than normal food, it will also be convenient to grow, keep and sell. It would save a lot of time and money. Family planning would be a good option because it will never cause overpopulation and if there will be less humans in the society then less food would be consumed. It would also reduce the number of child death rates.
In conclusion, I believe that the best option for Tanzania would be Farm Africa because it is the most sustainable and profitable out of the four even though it is a bit expensive and would have some financial problems. Farm Africa would not harm the environment or the people in the society at all so I think it is the best option to reduce the hunger in Tanzania.
Written by- Shreyas Agrawal Y-9B
