Our community member noted that England was possibly melting down because “ehe resources of this Earth are scarce”, and people are competing over scarce resources. I responded thus (expanded below):
‘”The resources of this Earth are scarce” – that was what Adam Smith possibly taught you via his theories. But if you pay deep attention, less than 0.1% of the universe has been explored. How many are we in this world to talk of scarcity?
‘Scarcity is created out of hatred and it is the illusion of the mind. Since I came to America, I have struggled to pray before eating (a bad thing for a Scripture Union kid). Why? My challenge is how to avoid food and not to find food. Yes, eating food is a problem, and nothing to be thankful for! You see food everyone. They dump uncooked on the doors of the church. Looking at it, the food we waste in the US can feed hungry kids around the world if someone wants to do that. But you know what happens? They send them to the oceans.’
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Where am I going? Nigeria has scaled poverty at an unprecedented level in a world of plenty: “In a stark reminder of Nigeria’s deepening food crisis, the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 report has revealed that approximately 172 million Nigerians are unable to afford a healthy diet. This harrowing statistic, highlighted by a report from FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO, has once again, underlined the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition plaguing the nation.”
No matter how you look at this, we cannot say that Nigeria does not have resources. The real issue is why we have been unable as a people to organize all the factors of production to provide food security to our people. The score does not look good: 172 million hungry out of 210 million means the nation is failing its people, and that must change.
Nigeria’s Food Security Crisis: 172 Million Nigerians Unable to Afford a Healthy Diet
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