The selected articles focus on the ideas of food shortage and economics, and the impact of the East-African food crisis. ... Officially declared by the UN as the worst food crisis of the 21st century so far, the East Africa food crisis has resulted in the driest years in Africa since 1950. ... Without sufficient food for themselves, the Africans don't have enough food for their livestock. ... Most of the costs that developed countries face are happening after the food leaves the farm: manufacturing, transportation, food retail and profit. ... Thus, crop fields around the world have been ...

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In the Peoples Republic of China, they cannot grow enough food to feed their whole country, while in other places people are just out of reach of any food supply, like the people in the economic hole of Chad. Not only are these problems brought by famine, but just having too many people in place where the amount of food produced is too small and cannot withhold its own people. ... The human has also made its way to the top of the food change making us not on any animals' normal menu. ... Today, we fight over oil shortages and land, but think if the earth had another two billion people whe...

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Low-income areas are often called "food deserts", or regions in which access to fresh food is difficult. ... In low socioeconomic communities fast food establishments are of greater accessibility, especially near schools (Fleischhacker et al., 2011; Larson et al., 2009; Simon et al., 2008). ... Food stamps is not usually considered a "child nutrition program", however half (51%) of food stamp beneficiaries are children, and its role is also critical (Center on Hunger and Poverty). Research Question Are those with a low socioeconomic status easy targets for fast food compan...

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Like many families at that time, Jugi's family struggled to collect the monthly payments for the house, buy food for the family or have any savings. ... They also tried to stay the same in some part, the family in the story mostly consume ethnic food and celebrate some things their way' like the celebration of veselija when Jugis and Ona get married on chapter 1. ... The family becomes a victim of capitalism when are faced to make a fast decision of buying the house. When the real-state agents fool the family of buying the house, hidden fees were not explained to the family because...

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These natural disasters are destroying crops and harvests for much of humanity, having a significant impact on the resources providing us with food and on the prolonged growth of this global issue. ... "Malnutrition can cause diseases that cause diseases such diarrhoea, by reducing the body's ability to convert food into usable nutrients.... As hunger is caused by the lack of food, when people suffer from such low levels of nutrition, these severely low levels of health cause many diseases, as well as providing people with "minimal energy, mental impairment and despair for food,...

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These natural disasters are destroying crops and harvests for much of humanity, having a significant impact on the resources providing us with food and on the prolonged growth of this global issue. ... "Malnutrition can cause diseases that cause diseases such diarrhoea, by reducing the body's ability to convert food into usable nutrients.... As hunger is caused by the lack of food, when people suffer from such low levels of nutrition, these severely low levels of health cause many diseases, as well as providing people with "minimal energy, mental impairment and despair for food,...

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Millions of people, including children, families, babies, veterans, and the elderly live day by day without food, water, a roof over their head, or love. ... This problem must be solved soon, because it's not getting better fast enough. ... One man and his son used up their $60 of food stamps that they were giver for two months. ... They can then use this money to pay for food, shelter, and some personal uses. ... sed into the wanting of a better life, and they wish to follow through, then I think we could find a better, faster way to end the nation's problem of homele...

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Apartment and motel dumpsters galore, recycling centers, two "cheap" liquor stores, nice grocery stores, fast food dumpsters, a floppy motel, and some great hiding places. ... He suggests " we ignore sign holders and report panhandlers to business owners, require fast food vendors to keep dumpsters locked (those big green piggybanks that hold the key to Pandora's box), and stake out liquor stores that are breaking the law by selling booze to known street drunks." ... So biological families compete and often lose to alternative families (gangs) and fast money (drug dealing). ...

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Therefore these workers are then either lay off or are replaced by machines that can do their jobs at a faster rate and a cheaper price. ... ATM machines basically do the same thing as a teller does such as allowing one to makes deposits, withdraws, transfers, all at a faster rate and even more convenient for some people. ... Programs like the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Transitional Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) are designed to help aid low-income working families with money and food. ...

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Nothing can justify indifference or noninvolvement of the rest of the world, the world that has enough food and enough money to indulge even strangest whims in the fate of the world that is devoid of even the most basic for sustenance. ... Today, a fast growing group of Americans works hard but get paid just enough to pay the bills and buy enough food not to starve. ...

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We overcrowd, overeat, and pollute our earth, wiping out forests and wetlands to develop a new subdivision, or a restaurant where a large portion of the food goes to waste, or a car dealership where we can purchase our automobiles that run off of fossil fuels while polluting our atmosphere. ... The more people on this earth, the more food will be needed, our population already suffers from an abundance of poverty. ... Thriving nations such as ours that have so much food that a large portion of it is wasted, have a responsibility to aid countries that cannot feed their hungry. ... With the p...

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Outline and critically examine the grounds for expecting that in low income economies faster economic growth will be associated with increased inequality. ... In developing countries the concern of people, who are low-income levels, to cover their basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter, dictates current expenditure which limits savings. ... More specifically his findings suggested that there is no support for the hypothesis that inequality rises faster the larger the rate of growth. Also in his results there is no support of the hypothesis that growth is faster the more unequ...

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As long as the woman lives righteously and honestly, like a Vietnamese proverb "A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast," she should not feel ashamed of her poverty. ... She used to do all kinds of labor from farming, raising cattle to lawn mowing just to get enough food for her family day by day. ... After six years of hard work and money saving, she paid off her loan, built a new house and now she also helps other poor people by providing employment and food for them. ... The woman in the text has "come out of [her] despair" to tell us the story of her life, the sto...

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Hardin points out that the undeveloped nations cannot improve their ability to prevent emergencies and overcome difficulties after disasters if they know they always can get help from other parties, especially when the population grows faster than it used to be. ... As an example, the World Food Bank, which is a food storage for the undeveloped nations when people in their countries experience emergencies or crisis, was created by humanitarian people that believe that helping the poor is the biggest issue at the time, but ignore what the real help is for these countries. Hardin claims that e...

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As long as the woman lives righteously and honestly, like a Vietnamese proverb "A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast," she should not feel ashamed of her poverty. ... She used to do all kinds of labor from farming, raising cattle to lawn mowing just to get enough food for her family day by day. ... After six years of hard work and money saving, she paid off her loan, built a new house and now she also helps other poor people by providing employment and food for them. ... The woman in the text has "come out of [her] despair" to tell us the story of her life, the sto...

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Basic needs such as housing, utilities, food and health care have to be chosen one over the other to survive. ... They are now ranked among the top fast food chains in food quality, and customer service. ...

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They give up time spent with their families just to serve others food, clean their offices and even their houses. ... People who don't graduate and take jobs in the fast food industry or even some retail workers, make far less then $20,000 a year. ... For those at the top of the economic food chain, such an attitude further distances them away from poverty. ...

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Thomas Freidman, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his writings on foreign policy, sums up globalization a little more clearer than I, when he states, "The inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world" (Friedman p. 7-8). ... This idea is exemplified by the spread of fast food industries i.e. ... Countries that have pr...

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Phillips finds a Reagan-era report crediting six of the seven deadly sins for producing the modern economy--and that's not counting all the television and fast-food fortunes that have sloth to thank. ... CEOs make 419 times as much as the average worker, and CEO pay is rising five times faster than profits. ...

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Population of developing countries is growing very fast. ... Everyone knows that every year, developed countries give developing countries a lot of help, such as money, energy sources, leechdom, food, etc. ...

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Nowadays, Thailand is called as the kitchen of the world because we export many kinds of food to many countries all around the world. ... The technology like tractor helps the farmer to do their job about five times faster than working with buffalo. ...

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Absolute poverty refers to "lack of basic necessities", which include shelter, food, and income (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ... If parents or guardians are able to afford some type of housing, they may not be able to afford proper food for themselves and their children because their money goes to maintaining a roof over their heads. ... A family who lives in poverty may not be able to afford the right food for a healthy nutrition, so they will turn to the dollar menu at a local fast food joint. A child may be so hungry and desperate to have some food that the child might even steal the fo...

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Poverty in Kentucky is definitely a big deal considering 26% of children in Kentucky live in poverty, according to the KET video's statistics from 2013. That means that 1 in four children live poverty. The situation of poverty in Kentucky differs from that in states that have several major cities th...

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They work all day just to ensure that they have money for food and a place to sleep. ... Ehrenreich continues to state that "The sitcoms and dramas are about fashion designers or schoolteachers or lawyers, so it's easy for a fast-food worker or nurse's aid to conclude that she is an anomaly--the only one, or almost the only one, who hasn't been invited to the party" (117). ...

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One way is to inject the person with prepared antibodies (from a horse) and this will be a fast recovery, the other way is to wait for the body to form its own immune response and therefore also form memory cells which will yield long term results. ... This is similar to what Garrett Hardin said to support his argument against the Food for Peace program: "we must ask if such a program would actually do more good than harm, not only momentary but also in the long run.... Despite the 92 million dollar annual donations, Ritter barley provided the food and shelter that the kids needed to proc...

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