Hunger in Africa

Hunger ... What associations do you have when pronouncing this word? Empty fridge or skinny purse? Believe me, for millions of people around the world, this is not just a vague concept, meaning only a grumbling stomach, and a cruel and predatory beast whose fangs are constantly dying people.

In any case, the famine in Africa, which has recently acquired a truly immense scale, has already claimed the lives of many thousands of people. Why is this happening, because the courtyard is a relatively enlightened 21st century?

The main reason is the total absence of what could have been called a state, albeit with some stretch. Those structures that now exist in the poorest and most troubled African regions are not falling under the definition of the state. Their main activity is trying to put on the throne of the next president, who is unlikely to stay in his post even for a couple of months. Of course, almost all humanitarian aid sent to these countries also settles in the pockets of "the powers that be." And because the famine in Africa is fundamentally social prerequisites, overlapping with the general specifics of the region.

Due to the lack of a normal infrastructure, local residents sometimes have to leave their children for certain death, going to the nearest settlements ("only" 100-150 km) for the most necessary medicines and food concentrates. Many of them still do not have time to help babies, who simply die from exhaustion.

However, this does not happen everywhere. For example, in Uganda, the situation is difficult, but to some extent controlled by the government. The local population is adequately provided with food, and therefore hunger in Africa in 2011, it is almost not affected.

However, not only the infantilism of the authorities contributes to the deterioration of the situation. With vast areas of land, the population could provide for itself with food, but constant droughts and the rapid degradation of soil resources reduce all attempts of agriculture to naught. That's why famine in Africa remains a constant companion of millions of people.

Unfortunately, the economy of all African countries is not able to prevent the consequences of droughts. However, experts have repeatedly noted that when the efforts of several countries in the region joined together, famine in Africa could be defeated. However, given the increasing Islamization of the population, the "Arab riots" and the general instability of the world economy, we can not hope for this. None of the developed countries is interested in investing in the semblance of a local economy, and the UN and the Red Cross alone will not achieve much.

Scientists, responding to the question of why in Africa there is a famine, lament and deceit in a society of geneticists offering genetically improved crops that can be grown on poor and even saline soils. This is not due to the ostentatious concern for human health, but because of the banal thirst for profit. After all, it is much more profitable to sell to the starving regions products grown in Europe and America.