Food tech question? :S?

Question

Explain how food availability and distribution, technological developments, and societal factors impact on food equity?

Answer 1

look at the nations that have starving people.  Typically it is because drought or political unrest have created a situation where large populations of people are living in areas that are not fertile enough to grow enough food to support themselves.  this means the food needed in that area must be purchased and shipped to that location.  Technology can help alleviate the long term problem of not enough arable land, by implementing irrigation systems, or helping crops grow by other means in marginal areas.   Societal factors include warlords who distrupt the movement of food, both internally produced and food delivered by other countries seeking to help the poor.   These warlords often seize and sell this food on the black market to finance their military operations, resulting in the starvation of the people left without assistance.