Defeating Hunger With the Green Revolution

In the wake of the Haiti disaster and now Southern Sudan's upped need for food, international agencies must consider the option of Green Revolution farming, a method that uses a combination of critical resources to grow larger amounts of a given crop and thus feed more individuals at a given time. The measure has been known now for about thirty years, but it has yet to be fully applied to the situations of today, and it's hard to think of a better time.

Green Revolution farming first originated in the 1950s after researchers concluded the present agricultural production would not be enough to satisfy demands of population surges in India and Africa. Twenty years later, the program took a second stage of development, helping India to double its food supply in an average year through enhanced techniques.

Based on a system of highly-charged particles and chemical fertilizers, the farming tool rapidly grows usable crops before restarting the tilling area for a second wave of plants, thus ensuring that something is always thriving regardless of the time. Scientists place the seeds alongside pellets of modified materials underground to ignite a chain reaction to speed the maturity of a focus plant, thus providing an average of twice as much food to a single family or farming area.

Because it alleviates the massive cost of foreign aide, the farming project is also a dynamic way through which nations of the world might shave off parts of their annual expenditures which might otherwise have to focus on providing one-time deliveries of food. The plants continue to reproduce which continued injections almost without limit, leaving a less  problematic situation behind during which they would be forced to regularly replant specimens for its total effect.

Although the program is not without its own demerits, the long-term goal is of foreseeable change in the seemingly unending cycle of poverty and hunger through many countries. Population must eventually be brought to a reasonable limit, but this program will help young children in poverty to not suffer due to their parents' decisions.

Hunger is a terrible travesty in the world, and it is our time to use the resources available to combat it.


Michael Veramendi

National Alliance Vice President for Foreign Issues