Rethinking Our Resources Can Provide Hope In Food Shortage and World Hunger

                              Its safe to say that food shortage and world hunger is not a new subject. In fact it has been around for ages and has even increased over the years, so much so that the world is beginning to creatively and drastically reevaluate the resources available in such a way as to generate more resources. There's no longer any room for not replenishing valuable resources let alone wasting them. We have seen the effects of such behavior. One example of the world rethinking its resources is key hole gardening in rural countries such as Africa which experiences heavy drought and is unable to keep the ground fertile enough year round with such severe weather conditions. The raised round bed planters are bringing diversity to the scarce supply and limited diet of people in areas like south Africa were millions die from malnutrition. These natives rely on stable crops for survival and now because of the invention of key hole gardening a positive chain reaction has occurred where they can feed their animals as well as themselves because the invention works by retaining moisture and heat to guarantee harvest year round.
           

                          Fish farming is another reevaluated resource that has proven to be successful in creating more of what we need. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks to guarantee varieties of fish and create a natural harvesting of each species. Before fish farms markets had to rely on what was quickly becoming a scarcity. The supply of fish were diminishing drastically and setting back causing more to become impoverished and reliant on other resources for survival for their families but thanks to fish farming one can look forward to an increase in the markets for fish.
                      
                          The biggest and most profitable reevaluation of natural resources is the new technologies created to help build biodiversity. Without biodiversity soil erosion can instantly sprout up and cause infestation and destroy both soil and crops. This means less crops grown and more importantly less fertile areas for regenerating growth in countries that feed the world. Biodiversity also helps regulate climate and temperature for the production of crops and because of this numerous countries are beginning to see the growing need for biodiversity, especially since the urban population will increase by 2 billion before the year  2050. The UK government launched Biodiversity: The UK Action Plan in 1994. This has since then sparked other nations to put more emphasis on creating agriculture programs to replace what has been taken away by our growing demand for natural resources.

                         Reevaluating what resources we have can leave the world in a much better state because its not about what we can produce, its about what can be done with what we are already producing that can change the quality of life for so many on earth.

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