Topic: Issues relating to poverty and hunger.
4) Discuss the possible relationship between climate change and hunger.(250 words)
Why this question:
The question is to analyse the impact of climate change on global hunger
Key demand of the question:
One has to analyse how and why climate Change Is Driving Global Hunger.
Directive:
Discuss – This is an all-encompassing directive – you have to debate on paper by going through the details of the issues concerned by examining each one of them. You have to give reasons for both for and against arguments.
Structure of the answer:
Introduction:
Begin with brief introduction on what you understand by Hunger.
Body:
Discussion should include the following:
- Quote reports like – Climate Change is among the leading causes of rising global hunger according to a new report released by the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO).
- Extreme weather events, land degradation and desertification, water scarcity and rising sea levels all indicate how climate change already undermines global efforts to eradicate hunger.
- Explain how the two things are inter related, what are the dependencies? What needs to be done?
Conclusion:
Conclude that If we are to achieve a world without hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030, it is imperative that we accelerate and scale up actions to strengthen the resilience and adaptive capacity of food systems and people’s livelihoods in response to climate variability and extremes.
