In spite of the advances made in agriculture, many people around the world still go hungry. Why is this the case? What can be done about this problem? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Recent era has witnessed an enormous development in agricultural technology like the high yield and anti-pest GM

food breeding

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food, breeding

, efficient modern agriculture machinery, large scale automatic plantation technique so on and so forth, yet there are still

large number

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a large number

of people who have not enough

food

to feed themselves.

Then

what are the possible reasons for

this

awkward situation? Different people have different ideas. In my opinion, extreme weather condition,

trade

protectionism and poverty are the three main reasons. Due to irrational human activities in the past decades, too much

green house

a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

greenhouse

gases are emitted into the

atmosphere causing

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atmosphere, causing

global warming and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather conditions,

such

as drought, flood, tornado, hurricane etc., which

greatly damage

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greatly damages

the agricultural production turnout. What’s more, high

trade

tariffs and barriers between countries make the flow of affordable

food

crops like the wheat, rice and soybeans very difficult and their price soaring.

Last

but not least, people in the developing countries,

for instance

Latin America, Africa and South Asia are very poor, so they simply cannot afford the

food

sold to them from the rich

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countries, hence

hence

leading to unnecessary famine, malnutrition even death from hunger. Faced with these severe

food

situation, I propose we global villagers join hands and tackle them by the following three viable measures.

Firstly

, let’s call

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for

people to opt for a green life and reduce their carbon footprint as much as possible.

Instead

of using planes for short-haul flight, riding with high-speed train so as to consume less fossil fuel. Say no to disposable products

such

as one-off plastic bags, chopsticks and bottled water. Recycle batteries, paper and wine glasses, so on and so forth.

Secondly

, promote free

trade

rather than wage

trade

wars between various countries to maximize the availability of

food

and cut down

food

prices.

Finally

, we should advocate fair price for the poor farmers whose only livelihood depending on alternative economic crops like cocoa, banana, sugarcane

instead

of cereal crop in some developing countries. As consumers, we can invest in the whole process of the crop production in

the poor

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poorer

countries to make the farmers who produce these non-grain agricultural crops with

higher

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high

quality to meet the need of the world and at the same time increase their income so that they could pay for the

food

they need to overcome the consequences of starvation.

Food

is the god of man, so the sufficient supply of

food

is the most crucial issue for people of the

world especially

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world, especially

those folks living in poor developing regions and countries. Combating climate change, advances of free

trade

and

advocation

of fair price are three remedies to relieve the current global

food

crisis despite the progress of agriculture

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in

the contemporary world.