The root of poverty is caused by lack of access to land, a vulnerable environment, and low agricultural production (“Rural Poverty in Honduras”). About sixty percent of the land in Honduras is still forested, but only twenty-five percent of that is obtainable for agriculture (“Honduras: Economy”). In the twentieth century the Honduran economy was based on one commodity, bananas. Like other third world countries, whose livelihood depends solely on one export, the Honduran economy was at the mercy of the world market and its current prices. Efforts to diversify agriculture and expand manufacturing have shown some slight improvement.
This system costs 750 Billion Rupees ($13.6 billion) a year, almost 1 percent if India’s gross domestic product. One-fifth of India’s people are malnourished; double the rate of other developing countries like Vietnam and China because of pervasive corruption, mismanagement and waste in the programs that are supposed to distribute food to the poor. Under the FDS, the federal government buys grain from farmers at prices high enough to keep farmers lobby happy and stores the food in warehouses. Each state then takes a certain amount of grain from these stocks based on how many of its residents are poor. Lastly, these states distribute food at subsidized prices through what are called ration shops.
The capital city is Yamoussoukro. Economy Ivory Coast is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly 70% of the population. Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil. Since the end of the civil war in 2003, political turmoil has continued to damage the economy, resulting in the loss of foreign investment and slow economic growth. GDP grew by more than 2% in 2008 and around 4% per year in 2009-10.
Those who did survive now found themselves unemployed and possibly homeless. The nation’s economy relied on agriculture and certain industries, these two factors employed two-thirds of the labour force. As it was destroyed, the unemployment rate sky-rocketed. Grants and donations were sent to Haiti. The U.N. generated 2 million dollar to fund textile manufacturing as well as 130 million dollars invested in exports.
What Wal-Mart actually costs the community as opposed to what they give back is substantially off kilter. The fact that thousands of their associates in each state have to rely on government assistance just to survive, and the dollar figures that come out for the taxpayers pockets is staggering. Wal-Mart employees have cost the taxpayers $1.5 billion in government provided assistance in 2005, because their employer will not provide them with adequate healthcare plans. That was 8 years ago and I can only imagine that these figures have gone up. Wal-Mart has also caused the property value of buildings in these small towns they invade to plummet.
Potatoes are Ontario’s largest fresh vegetable crop and second only to tomatoes as a processing crop. Potatoes help the economy tremendously, making over $200 million a year. The potato industry is very large, and to keep this industry going is all the workers and what their role accounts for. The potato industry has jobs for people such as the people who work at the farms, such as the farmers themselves who help harvest the crop, along with the people who package them up, who then load them onto vehicles, driving them to the businesses that owns the rail cars or the massive trucks, who then load them on and operate the railcars and drive the trucks, all the way to the factories, while has a significant amount of role to play, such as unload the potato’s and checking the potatoes to see if they are approved for packaging, processing them into the final product (French fries, chips etc..) they are then packaged by machines and then put on various types of transportation, depending on where they’re going (If overseas, plane or boat, If in Canada or U.S train or rail car) then after, they are then brought to the retailers and are dealt with unpacking, cooking,
The household sector shares about 90 % of total energy consumption (NCCSPE, 2011; ESMAP, 1996). Biomass fuel demand increases by 2.5% annually during the last two decades and the annual consumption of wood is much more than the yield in Ethiopia (Mekonnen, 2000). It is estimated that the demand for fuel wood in Ethiopia is five to six times the sustainable supply (ARSMERDPA, 2005). Further, indicates that only 43% of the total population has access to electricity. Of those having access to electricity as energy sources, only 2% people are rural, while the rest 86% are urban
The shortage of water burned up the crops the minute they sprouted. Agriculture accounts for about 70% of water withdraws worldwide, increasing to over 90% in developing countries. Water is also necessary for the production of our food, the natural fibers of our clothing, biofuels and other goods based on agricultural raw materials. The average farmer feeds 150 people a day, and with the decrease of water means the number of people fed will decrease. Farmers today have spent thousands of dollars to update their irrigation practices.
The increase in manufacturing almost destroyed the agriculture of Puerto Rico. The government bought the fields from the owners but there are only two refineries in use. The production of sugar cane dropped from 1.4 million tons to 74 thousand. Tobacco and coffee also suffered and they could no longer export them but only supplied to a local
There are abut 47 million people on food stamps. Also more than eighty percent of the people that are on food stamps have a monthly income that is below the poverty line( ). Food stamps have also taken a cut in how much money they give out. This has become a big problem because people on food stamps are already struggling enough as it is and then when the food stamp company takes more money away from a family it makes it even harder for them to get food and provide for their family. Food stamps are also not accepted everywhere.