Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Irma Suffern Blog 1: Poverty


 
 
Summary:

This article mentions how impoverished Africa is and how they can possibly lower their statistics of poverty by adding more KFCs in the Sub-Saharan area. Statistics show that 23 percent of the food produced by subsistent farmers is wasted before it ever gets to the consumers and 30 percent of the consumers are suffering from malnourishment and the farmers are purposely not producing more foods. Mainly because they are not receiving the profit they want for the goods they are producing. But there appears to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Urbanization began to take place with the growth that the country was seeing in economics. From that urbanization arose KFC in Africa.


Analysis:

With fast food companies like KFC in Africa the demand for higher quality foods is on and more than ever before. KFC cannot use such low quality foods that Africa is used to producing. This fast food joint is now forcing Africa to produce a much higher quality food and the small subsistence farmers they are used to will not be good enough. There will need to be high quality foods, including chicken, produced and they need to be produced locally. Such an investment will be great for the future of Africa. KFC expanding within Africa will ultimately be opening up more jobs for more people in Africa. The only thing now is to get things kick started. It will tough due to chickens only brining in value after reaching a certain weight and being sold. It’s an interesting way to incorporate more wealth and quality foods into the Sub-Saharan area to ultimately improve the living conditions there.



Tackling poverty means that there will be more KFCs in Africa

Posted Feb 3, 2014 9am


 

 

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