I Believe Blog #2

"Zambia: Fertile but hungry." I think is an interesting title, because usually when we think about fertile we think about plenty of food to feed lot of people, but with when we see the title we will think differently. That what happened in Zambia, when the farmers lost their subsided from the government. Other problem that the farmers had was, they produced maize, cabbages, tomatoes and other vegetables but because lacked of infrastructure they could not sell their corps into the markets.

People who lived in poverty and hunger were the most affected by this situation. Many people could not work because they were too weak. As a result, in the end of season there was no farming activity and there is widespread hunger. In Zambia "Life expectancy in Zambia has fallen from 50 to 32." There was a major issue that Zambia was facing as a effect of hunger that happened in Zambia.

I believe this issue can be solve if, the government and international organizations could work together. They could create programs to develop Zambia agriculture, since Zambia is depended to agriculture. Not only providing free seeds, but access to the markets, education in agriculture and well distributed to other areas are important, in order to overcome the farmers' issues and the food shortage.

Source: BBC News, "Zambia: Fertile but hungry", Peter Biles. Monday, 6 February 2006. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4678592.stm