Question

Although land is farmable in several developing countries, hunger is a major problem in many of these places. Give some reasons why this might be so.

Answer 1

Apart from land availability factors like malpractices, improper infrastructure, distorted supply chain etc. also leads to shortage of food in market thereby causing hunger issues

Step-by-step explanation:

Hunger is not associated with the availability of land. The following factors too are responsible for causing hunger despite land availability

1. Proper infrastructure and machinery for farming due to which farmers till date are cultivating using old traditional practices.
2. There is no proper access to reliable and timely market information to the farmers
3. Poorly structured and inefficient supply chains
4. Inadequate cold storage facilities for perishable food items
5. No or poorly operating food processing units
6. Illegal food practices leading to food shortage