Food/Hunger Crisis A food/hunger crisis can develop from multiple things:  A higher population of consumers than the rate of food production  Market prices are overwhelmingly high compared to the national average of income per household  Natural Disasters destroying homes and businesses and farm land. Not enough food to go around for the affected families.  Weather conditions such as droughts and monsoons wipe out crops and make it impossible to grow anything

Food Crisis in the Middle East: the cost of food is continuing to increase the inability of the Middle East’s number of poor to feed themselves and their families. Rising prices are reaching record highs, and grain prices were 71 percent higher worldwide in April than they were for the same month last year. The high rise in prices has boosted the rate of poverty by the millions. Yemen is the poorest of all the Middle Eastern countries. Egypt is also reaching a high poverty rate due to the hunger crisis. Egypt is also a highly populated area; Almost 20 million Egyptians live on two dollars or less. Egypt is also the world’s largest wheat importer, but have no money to buy grain. The oil-rich states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar can afford to buy foodstuffs on the international markets at today’s high prices.

The Middle East does not get the proper amount of attention from the United Nations on the food crisis in the Middle East. This is due to the fact that the food crisis is not only spread across the Middle East but the food crisis is spread across the world, and since we rely on imports and exports so heavily, the cost of food and transportation makes it nearly impossible to do so.

The future outlook on the food crisis won’t look good for a while. There are so many countries that are a part of the food crisis that it would take a long time to recover all of them as well as maintain a balance with all of the affected areas.