If there is such a vast surplus of food on earth, why do people continue to go hungry around the world in both developing and industrialized countries?
Answer.
Hunger is the most important and serious problem in developing and industrialized countriesp though there is a surplus of food production.
Unethical human Behaviour is the main and most important reason for hunger in world.Big farmers, sellers produce large amount of food though they do not show humanity toward poor section of society.Greed for money is the root of all evil.They feel degraded in donating and lowering food prices.
Big businessmen, farmers, traders store grainery and make inventories of raw food they have.When prices were high they sell their stock.Some other reasons are natural calamities like flood but they are very little responsible.
Terrorism and corruption also affect the hunger.Countries like Syria, Somalia,Yemen where there is a lot of disaster due to corruption and terrorism. People went on hunger due to deficiency of food even after other countries help them to supply food.They do not get food because of their dark conditions.
There is surplus production of food in the countries but due to above problems people suffer from hunger.
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