Poverty: Causes and Ways to End Poverty (Speech Presentation Sample)

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Poverty: Causes and Ways to End Poverty
Poverty is the condition that an individual or society lacks funds to acquire essential basic needs for the minimum living standards. Debt is the global source of hunger (Hickel 749). Both in developed, developing, and underdeveloped nations, there exist a significant disparity between the rich and the poor (Landes). A substantial number of people who live in extreme poverty, defined as people earning either $1 or less per day. The most significant population of people living in poverty are small-scale farmers living in developing and undeveloped nations (Hickel 749). Majorly because they do not have adequate land to grow enough food to feed their families on an annual basis, moreover, these small-scale farmers earn less penny from their sales, such that they cannot raise enough funds to buy food from other sources. Some of the other causes of poverty include illiteracy, overpopulation, and epidemics.
One of the significant ways of ending poverty and hunger is enhancing agriculture as a way to boost income and attain food security (Umesha et al. 67). Considering that, most of the underprivileged people rely on farming to make a living. They live far into the interiors areas where there are no markets to sell their produce, exposing them to challenges such as inaccessibility to credit facilities, skills, and resources to increase their harvest. Their nations should invest more in agriculture and strengthen partnerships to build more reliable food systems (Umesha et al. 67). On the other hand, increasing awareness and educating people can empower households to share duties and responsibilities aimed at improving their living standards while alleviating poverty and hunger, among other remedies,