Reasons for World Hunger and Poverty

At our last all Neighborhood dinner one we came up with a list of reasons we thought the world struggled with hunger. I’ve condensed it and this is the list we came up with:

Corruption, Politics, War
Distribution of Wealth & World Apathy
Too many people for the amount of land
Land not Fertile
Natural Disasters (Drought, Floods, Earthquakes, etc.)
Lack of Infrastructure (Roads, irrigation, transportation, etc.)
Lack of Education
Sickness and Disease
Cost of Food increasing
Land Management - Land is converted from food crops to Bio-fuel crops.
Climate Change
Poverty Trap

Here are some of the top reasons I found in some research (The End of Poverty - by Jeffrey Sachs, on my bookshelf lower left). You may have also heard Nancy Beach’s message this weekend that had some great information on this topic.

Poverty Trap - all a person’s income is put toward food and a person can’t save.
Geography - Land locked countries, poor natural resourcesGeopolitics - Political turmoil, etc.
Inability to advance Technology
Lack of Infrastructure (Roads, irrigation, transportation)
Economic failure
Distribution of wealth and world apathy

As you can see many of your answers are right in-line with what some of the experts are finding. You all are really aware! It has been a very exciting weekend at the church, I am looking forward next week to identifying with the poor by participating in the 5 day solidarity challenge and then making an immediate impact by serving at the Dundee Crown - Feed my Starving Children event May 3rd-4th.