Today, All Famines Are Political

Today, all famines are political In our present-day, modern world, society has yet to conquer certain struggles that have been the cause of death and calamity for the past millennia. Sickness and disease, famine, and natural hazards, are as much a part of our world as they were 4000 years ago. However, can humanity still claim that famine is due to external factors and thus out of our control? Between 1950 and 1960, eighteen million people died of famine under the leadership of Mao Zedong. In Cambodia, 1979, between one and two million people starved following a decade of conflict. Nevertheless, by the start of the 21th century, nearly all major famines were eradicated. The number of people dying due to a lack of food has dropped precipitously, particularly over the last thirty to fifty years. Regardless, according to the UN Global Hunger report of 2022, millions of lives are currently at risk in South Sudan, Yemen, and the northern parts of Ethiopia and Nigeria. And this despite the fact that in the history of the world, there has never been a more favourable food production to world population ratio. At present, agriculture produces enough food to