Annotated Bibliography on World Hunger

"Hunger Is Still a Problem Around the World" by Ismail Serageldin.  Nutrition.  David Haugen and Susan Musser, Eds.  Opposing Viewpoints Series.  Greenhaven Press, 2012.  Ismail Serageldin, "Abolishing Hunger,"  Issues in Science & Technology, vol. 25, no. 4, Summer 2009, pp. 35-38;  Fall 2009 by the University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX.  Reprinted with permission.

This article would interest anyone who wants to help change the food system in the world.  The audience could be anyone.  The article offered many instructions to take in order to fix the current problems.  An increase in food production, which would lead to an increase in technology, new biofuels, more research, and new developments of water use, would all contribute to fixing the problems.  The author is pointing out the things that are wrong with the system and offering many different solutions.  The article didn't alter my viewpoint, but I definitely agree with the claims.  The hunger issue should be addressed and the author's suggestions would be beneficial towards the solution.

Searchinger, Timothy.  "A Quick Fix to the Food Crisis."  Scientific American 305.1 (2011): 14. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection.  EBSCO.  Web 26 Oct. 2011

This article matches its title.  The audience would be anyone interested in fixing the food industry.  This one offers some useful statistics.  The main idea is that biofuels are in too much demand and that they are taking away from our ability to feed the hungry.  I agree with the author's claims and I think that this issue should be addressed.

Sanchez, Pedro A., and M. S. Swaminathan. "Cutting World Hunger in Half." Sciencemag.org. Science Magazine, 21 Jan. 2005. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5708/357.full>.

This source is objective.  This article would interest anyone curious about world hunger and a possible solution.  This article is based on statistics about The Millennium Project, a United Nations task to help reduce the number of hungry people in the world.  The "hot spots of world hunger" are mostly around Africa and India.  The article identifies three ways to cut hunger in half by means of global political action, national policy reforms, and community action in hunger hot spots.  I learned many statistics that have possibly grown in the past 6 years since it was written.  I agree because the authors said that reducing world hunger would depend on the governments of these nations.  If those governments have little corruption and are cooperative with the people, then progress will be achieved.  This will be useful in my project because of the information and the suggestions that the article has provided. 

Borlaug, Norman E. "Ending World Hunger. The Promise of Biotechnology and the Threat of Antiscience Zealotry." Plant Physiology. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Oct. 2000. Web. 02 Nov. 2011. <http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/124/2/487.full>.

Biotechnology can help end world hunger.  By designing plants differently, they can develop plants faster and therefore have more crops to offer.  The author claims that technology today has the ability to feed 10 billion people but that many would need to adopt the methods in order for it to have an impact.  Breakthroughs involving the genetic engineering of plants could lead to solving the problem.    

Anderson, Kerby. "World Hunger." Leadership University. Probe Ministries, 5 Aug. 2003. Web. 07 Nov. 2011. <http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/hunger.html>.

            The main causes of hunger are poverty, population, and priorities.  The people that live in poverty are the ones that are hungry and vice versa.  The population is growing dramatically and impacting the amount of hungry people around the world.  Anderson says, “Governmental control makes hunger worse.”  This article makes many references to books in the Bible in response to hunger but then says that there are many “unbiblical solutions.”  Interesting solutions and ideas were expressed in this article including “The Lifeboat Ethic” and “The Christian Ethic”, both of which could be useful. 

Minch, Dr. Kevin J. "Bilateral vs Multilateral Aid: Debatabase - Debate Topics and Debate Motions." IDEA: International Debate Education Association - Debate Resources & Debate Tools. 12 Sept. 2005. Web. 07 Nov. 2011. <http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=392>.

This article provides the difference between bilateral and multilateral aid as well as the pros and cons of each.  Bilateral aid is money given through individual organizations while multilateral aid is money routed through large governmental agencies such as the United Nations. The listed pros and cons are new information to me and they would be very helpful when debating this subject in regards to world hunger.

Rosner, Hilary. "The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World | Popular Science." Popular Science | New Technology, Science News, The Future Now. 7 Aug. 2009. Web. 07 Nov. 2011. <http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-07/8-farming-solution-help-stop-world-hunger>.

A possible solution to world hunger is a second green revolution.  Eight changes to a solution are expressed in this article.  This includes farming the desert, reducing resources, rebuilding rice, replacing fertilizer, remapping the land, robot labor, revitalizing the soil, and making supercrops.  I learned about all of these different farming techniques that could help improve the system and lead the way towards a cure to world hunger.

Shah, Anup. "Solving World Hunger Means Solving World Poverty — Global Issues." Global Issues : Social, Political, Economic and Environmental Issues That Affect Us All — Global Issues. 24 Oct. 2010. Web. 07 Nov. 2011. <http://www.globalissues.org/article/8/solving-world-hunger-means-solving-world-poverty>.

This article seems to believe that production is not a solution to world hunger, but rather solving the issue of poverty goes hand-in-hand with hunger.  The author claims “poverty is largely a political issue.”  The argument is that there is not a lack of food, but a lack of money to purchase food and an unfair distribution of food.  This provides a different opinion towards the subject that does not involve production.