Hunger is a significant issue for centuries in several countries and at the global level. There are 805 million hungry people in the world and 98% of them live in developing countries. In order to overcome this global problem, however, it depends on the knowledge, tools, and policies along with political will fit together in each country.
Hunger is a significant issue for centuries in several countries and at the global level. There are 805 million hungry people in the world and 98% of them live in developing countries. In order to overcome this global problem, however, it depends on the knowledge, tools, and policies along with political will fit together in each country.
Hunger is a significant issue for centuries in several countries and at the global level. There are 805 million hungry people in the world and 98% of them live in developing countries. In order to overcome this global problem, however, it depends on the knowledge, tools, and policies along with political will fit together in each country.
Issue: What can we do (as a united faction) to eradicate global hunger? Country Assigned: Oman Question 1: What is the current status of the issue in your country? Hunger has been a significant issue for centuries in several countries and at the global level. This problem demonstrates that there are still many poor countries lacking an access to nourishment around the world. According to a statistic from the World Food Programme, there are 805 million hungry people in the world and 98% of them live in developing countries. In addition to this, 75% of these people live in rural areas and their living depends on agriculture. By relying for income and food on agriculture without other employments, they tend to have a low-quality life because agricultural careers can be negatively impacted by a number of factors such as natural disasters, government policy, and geographic determinants. Nevertheless, global hunger is unlike cancer that cannot be cured; this issue is solvable because there is enough food in this world for everyone. . In order to overcome this global problem, however, it depends on the knowledge, tools, and policies along with political will fit together in each country. Oman is a country that can be considered to have a lowmedium rate of hunger due to the countrys specialization in trading through crude oil, petroleum products, and petrochemicals. The nation is rich of oil and natural gas in the same way as Dubai, New Mexico, and other large states in the US such as Texas, California, and North Dakota. In 1964, oil was first discovered in the interior near Fahad in the Western desert and Oman was able to leap immeasurable income of petroleum products in 1970 when they became independent from Britain. During that time, the new Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said Al Said, had change a representation of absolute monarchy that is always infected by lousy leaders, extremists, and corruption into an absolute monarchy in absolute harmony by developing the country according to Western modernization. By discovering and exploiting these oil resources, Oman has become the most-enriched state in the world during the past 40 years. The most significant improvement in Oman is economy that has a great impact on other developments in the country. For instance, oil exports have raised the revenue of the government and rate of international trading that have led to an improved living standard for the citizens of Oman. With a limited data about hunger in Oman, we are able to analyze the high rate of access to drinking water sources and sanitation to hypothesize that most Omanis have a low-medium rate of hunger. To illustrate, Oman is one of the
countries where over 80% of population are able to access a water
source, which represents the effectiveness of its government to provide its people with the four essential requisites of life: food, clothing, medicine, and a residence, and also the growth of country in terms of economics and politics. On the other hand, this vast development has also become a problem, creating a large gap between the rich and the poor because the price of everything in the country has rapidly increased and driven up the cost of living. Nevertheless, the growing gap between the rich and the poor has shown that the government probably does not distribute power equally throughout their country. As we can see in reality, a lot of prosperous people in Oman are capable of buying extremely expensive cars and houses as they wish, while some of the population are not even able to adjust to the rapid rising of living costs. Question 2: What is your country's stand on the issue? Viable solutions that will solve internal problems between the rich and the poor are offering employments to unopportunistic people in rural areas, and charging taxes from wealthy population. In fact, while Oman is rapidly developed by the petroleum productions, the Sultan and his government were concerned about oil reserves that are being expended. They therefore started to introduce other industrializations concentrating on mining, manufacturing, and agriculture. The purpose of this is also to ensure that the government spreads its power across the regions, meaning that bunches of low-class population that are unskilled will also be employed and have a better living, not only skilled people in middle and high classes will have employments. Moreover, the government can charge taxes from luxury goods that only wealthy population can afford to help balance the standards of living among their population. In addition, Omans financial stability has allowed them to further offer financial aid and accommodations to other countries that are in need of access to food and nourishment. The Sultan and his government have already started a program called Oman Charitable Organization (OCO) to accommodate people without and within the country by providing financial support in general for children, orphan, and elderly, and in emergency for individuals and families affected by incidents, fires, disasters, and natural calamities. They recently sent aids to other states such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Indonesia, Yemen, and Thailand etc. For example, Oman had helped refugees in Yemen by sending aid to famine-affected areas in Somalia where people are facing severe humanitarian crisis. Moreover, although when a developed nation such as Japan was impacted by the
earthquake and tsunami, Oman offered a financial support for $10
million to the quake-affected areas. In the future, Oman can establish more programs such as these financial aid programs to help people suffering from malnutrition and to end the hunger crisis around the world. Furthermore, with the agricultural rate in Oman that is increasing, they are hoping to be able to produce agricultural and food products, and distribute those for hungry citizens inside and outside country in the near future. Question 3: Explain the reason for your stand. Since Oman only has a limited amount of agricultural and food products that they can provide in the present, they are unable to directly aid most countries with those products that are in need. Nevertheless, the people of Oman and the government are working on agriculture in order to provide food products for the malnourished citizens living in Oman and, if possible, every other people around the world. The only form of accommodation that Oman can effectively offer now is financial aid. The people of Oman, however, are hoping to offer more by starting programs to provide foreign aids for countries that are struggling to provide food for their citizens. Source: http://www.wfp.org/hunger/who-are http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/oman-contributes-1-millionhungry-families-mauritania-and-senegal http://thp.org/issues/hunger/ http://www.omantrading.com/trading.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Oman http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ghi13.pdf http://boatbythebeach.blogspot.com/2010/12/oman-richcountry.html http://atlas.media.mit.edu/profile/country/omn/ http://www.omantrading.com/about-oti.html http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-9667.html http://internationalbanker.com/comment/economic-developmentoman/ http://reliefweb.int/report/somalia/oman-sends-aid-somalia http://crossingborders.dk/oman-an-absolute-monarchy-in-absoluteharmony/