Tuesday, October 20, 2015

How Small Farmers Help Eradicate World Hunger?

Millions of people in the world do not have access to healthy and nutritious food. There are several reasons that lead to hunger like poverty, conflict between countries, world population, climate change, harmful economic system and food & agricultural policy.

To contribute towards ending world hunger, many organizations have stepped forward. Besides the efforts of such organizations, individuals have also made an effort to put an end to this problem. Most notable among them are small-scale farmers. They have played an essential role in efforts to end the hunger problem.

By increasing the overall grain production, small-scale agriculturalists have made great efforts in the direction of hunger relief. Their efforts have provided healthy and nutritious food to many people at affordable price. This step has brought food justice and sovereignty worldwide.

To grow crops, small-scale farmers make use of environment friendly techniques. They use natural resources that benefit nature and the health of human beings.

However, factors like debt, climate change, crop diseases and more have caused restriction in their work all around the world. This is because they are neither equipped with adequate resources nor do they have enough money to cope with the upcoming issues. Subsequently, this has caused a setback towards the step for ending world hunger and lead to threatening the survival of agriculturalist.

Such issues have demotivated the agriculturist. It has not only resulted into lesser food production, but also brought small agriculturalists in the hunger category. Such situations have led them to live life without a job or money.

In a nutshell, it is essential to encourage and support small-scale farmers, so that not only they live a healthy life, but they also help reduce poverty and hunger. Following are the benefits of supporting small-scale farmers-
  • Increase in food production
  • Eliminate poverty
  • Eliminate hunger
  • Environment protection
  • Increase food justice, security and sovereignty
To help small-scale agriculturalists, numerous organizations and groups have got together. Organizations are supporting the farmers, so that they can eventually help in reducing the increased number of hunger worldwide.

The help from such organizations is not just limited here instead these groups organize workshops for agriculturalists, so that they learn new agricultural techniques.

Overall, small-scale agriculturalists play a crucial role in bringing great changes that have helped their fellow citizens live a good life.

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