Philadelphia is the 5th largest city in the U.S.  Much kind of divers of people lives in Philadelphia. Health in Philadelphia needs a lot of attention than the other cities in the U.S.  According to the article of healthy Philadelphia, "Philadelphia has low berth with rate and African American woman have higher death rates for heart disease and other kind of disease." Everything that is going on in Philadelphia contributes to the hunger in Philadelphia. Perhaps crime and drugs could be one of the thing that effecting Philadelphia from solving food insecurity in Philadelphia.

    According The Paradox of Obesity and Hunger  “Households without money to buy enough food often have to rely on cheaper, high calorie foods to cope with limited money for food and stave off hunger” providing food stamp may help kids in Philadelphia to have a balance.

    Food stamps are helping many law income families. Food stamps don’t rich to all the people who need support, according to PDF file I read. If food stamps are reduced by 1% almost 4000-13000 people will be come food insecure households. Imaging if food stamps increase by 5% that would help many people that don’t get any kind of assistant form food stamp. The one thing we Philadelphia has to accomplish has to be food to reaching more people who need food assistant.

Organization  also made a lot of progress by helping people in needs.  According to this “The Hibernian Hunger Project is a nationwide community service program that feeds thousands of needy people through a series of events that run throughout the year.” If Philadelphia has more of these organization the hunger rate in Philadelphia would be a lot different.

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    About how much does America or any other country waste when it comes down to food? A whole lot, in an interview a guy name Tom Smith, an anthropologist who’s been studying food waste for the pass 10 years states that about 9 billion kilos of food is wasted each year. And this waste comes from convenience stores are running about 26%, fast food restaurants about 10%, regular restaurants, full service sit down restaurants about 4%. Supermarkets are very efficient - less than 1% loss rates. When you look at their garbage it looks really high but that's because they handle a lot of food.
    It also states that households lose about 450 billion pounds, the retail food industry about 54 billion pounds and we haven't fully calculated the exact weight of all the farm losses at this point but it's runs somewhere around $25 to $30 billion. If we calculated all the waste that we make we could possibly feed other countries with it.   
    But the question is why is so much food being wasted? It is stated, “The core reason, and it's all the way through from the farms to the retail industry to the household, is that Americans have lost touch with food. We have been away from the farm for so long that it's not something that we consciously think about, it's just there.” Said by Tom Smith. This is true when you go back in to time when everyone was farming or getting their supplies from farms. However if we go back to farming are our people who are starving now still be starving or will they eat? The food we waste here has to stop, but how does it. We waste a huge amount of food here and don’t even know it. The problem is we have too much food. Since we have too much why not give it away!

    Niger is not the only part of Africa that needs aid. There are many other small towns and other major town that need help too. Everyone who has donated, traveled, and etc to Africa has been to Niger, where it is almost okay but what about the other towns that are agony too? In the Christian Science Monitor it was stated that the 2.9 million Nigerians hungry are just a fraction to Africa’s 31.1 million.  It is also said that Africa is the only region in the world becoming less and less able to feed itself. Which is 100% true.
    What is the cause of this? The cause is “the relentless spread of desert and drought, high population growth, bad governance, and the world community's flawed hunger-response system.”  Yes aid is coming in but not enough however Niger still is getting the help. In The Christian Science Monitor article Hunger is Spreading In Africa a man by the name of Chief Marafa, says "The problem is not just in Niger, but in Mali, Nigeria, and others," which is right.

    If we can’t stop the problems there in Africa, then we are not going to be able to stop them anywhere. Like the article says, these problems are just going to spread into other places. And what do we do after that?They are just going to keep spreading and once their done spreading there is going to be nothing left.

HUNGER

Starvation is affecting the majority of population in the countries in the developing world. Coming from the Ethiopia, a developing country has exposed me to seeing people who are starving. This is in contrast to this country where people throw out food that is perfectly fine.

It doesn’t seem fair to see these two opposite things. As I researched my topic I found out more than half of African children are under fed or go to bed hungry. According to BBC news, “A lot of countries in Africa urgently need food. Agriculture in Africa is at a crisis. It leaves 200 million people malnourished.”

People who are suffering form starvation get weaker and weaker as the days go by. This website says that students were a help by bringing cane food to end world hunger. This makes it hard for them to work, because they are relying on donations. Donating food for people who are starving may solve the problem right away. The right way to solve starvation is help those who are in need change their life style, like through their use of better farming tools and the creation of irrigation systems. This type of solution cost money this people don’t have.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4620130.stm
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