Not enough food to go aroundQ: Is this statement true or false?

False

There is enough food to provide at least 4.3 pounds of food per person a day.(http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s8v5n3.html)

So, where have all the foods gone? Why is there a world food crisis?

Millennium Goals

Hunger and poverty is one of the millennium goals created by the United Nations.

The UN’s original goal was to decrease hunger and poverty by 15% between 2000 and 2015.

The Millennium Development Goals Report The Millennium Development Goals Report (2007)(2007)

The number of people living in developing countries living on $1 per day has decreased from 1.25 billion to 980 million.

The proportion of people living in extreme poverty fell from 33% to 19%.

India, Eastern, and South East Asia had a large decrease in the percentage of people living in poverty.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has decreased from 46.8% to 41.1.%.

Child hunger is decreasing in all regions, but those regions still need support.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularyHunger: The discomfort, weakness, or pain

caused by a prolonged lack of food.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularyPoverty

The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularyMalnutrition

when the body doesn’t get enough nutrients to function normally, grow at a healthy rate, fight infections, or produce sufficient energy for normal physical activity.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularySustainability

balancing the fulfillment of human needs with the protection of the environment so that these needs can be met in the present and the future.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularyMarasmus

Malnutrition occurring in infants and young children, caused by insufficient intake of calories or protein and characterized by thinness, dry skin, poor muscle development, and irritability.

Hunger and Poverty VocabularyKwashiorkor

A malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.

Hunger Facts24,000 people die from hunger and hunger-

related causes per day !Of those, 18,000 are children. One person dies of hunger every 3.6

seconds. One in six people on the planet is hungry. An estimated 17% of all deaths in the world

are due to malnutrition.

Who’s Hungry?

Hunger disproportionately affects people who are living in extreme poverty.

The majority of people who are undernourished live in developing countries.

How does hunger affect us?

Don’t have energy to work, play, or learn.

Bodies and brains don’t develop correctly.

More prone to diseases.

Causes of Hunger

What do you think are the main causes of hunger?

Causes of HungerWarKills farmers lower

food productionHealthcare facilities

are destroyedWater supplies get

polluted spread of disease

Armies may disrupt food supplies in order to starve their enemies.

Causes of HungerLow Productivity

Some communities fail to produce enough food to last from season to season.

Lack of water or floods can destroy crops.

Causes of HungerLow Income

A community may be too poor to afford seeds, equipment or animals.

Can’t afford to grow and produce food, or to import it.

Causes of HungerLack of Skills

Farmers lack the knowledge of effective farming techniques.

Causes of HungerDisease

Sick

Can’t farm

Malnourished

Hunger decreases energy

Slow recovery

Possible death

Sadly, money that would normally be spent on food, is now spent on medicine.

The need for money leads to prostitution, which leads to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and more hunger and poverty.

People become trapped in the hunger and poverty cycle.

Where does poverty exist? Is there poverty in the most advanced countries such

as the US?

Today, 37 million Americans—and 1 in 6 children—are struggling in poverty.

Those under the age of 18 are the most likely to be impoverished.

The child poverty rate among rural states is consistently higher than it is elsewhere in the country.

Poverty in the U.S.

http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/map.htm (Poverty Map of the US)

Answer the questions on the next slide.

QuestionsWhich state has the highest percentage of

poverty? Mississippi

Which state has the lowest percentage of child poverty?

New Hampshire

Where is the highest percentage of child poverty?

Washington D.C.

Where does poverty exist?Poverty in Africa:

315 million people – one in two people in Sub Saharan Africa survive on less than one dollar per day.

One in six children die before the age of 5.

Nearly one third of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are underweight.

Where does poverty exist?Other countries:

More than 1.2 billion people—one in every five on Earth—survive on less than $1 a day

854 million people across the world are hungry, up from 852 million a year ago.

Every day, almost 18,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.

Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.

1.3 billion have no access to clean water.

3 billion have no access to sanitation.

2 billion have no access to electricity.

Value of NutritionFood Benefits:Food provides energyKeeps you alive!Helps with cell growth and regenerationHelps protect your body from disease

What does hunger look like?What do people consume everyday?Give some examples:

Why is malnutrition a problem?

Malnutrition causes permanent damage to the body.

These damages mostly affect children.Malnutrition causes physical, mental, and

social damage.

Examples of DamageDamage to the nervous systemLow birth weightSmall heads (Smaller brain)Distorted liver, kidney, and pancreasProne to respiratory illnessLow intelligenceLearning disabilitiesBehavior problemsIrritableCry more

Diseases in ChildrenThese diseases are caused by

malnutrition:

Marasmus

Kwashiorkor

Vitamin A Deficiency

Anaemia

Other Diseases?

DiarrheaRespiratory infectionsMalariaMeaslesAIDSIntestinal parasites

How can you prevent diseases from spreading?

Encourage breast feeding vs. bottle feeding Breast feeding protects the babies from infection

because they receive anti-bodies from the mother.

Immunize childrenImprove food and water hygienePrevent the spread of AIDSControl mosquitoesDe-worm children

Solutions -NGOsRed Cross- Disaster reliefAction Against Hunger- Prevent hungerCoca-Cola Foundation- Improve community

life through education.

Sustainability

Sustainable agriculture refers to the ability of a farm to produce food indefinitely, without causing irreversible damage to ecosystem health.

How can people gain sustainability?

Replenish nutrients in the soil.Grow more than one crop per field.Rotate cropsRefrain from slash-and-burn cultivating.

Slash and burn farming is when large amount of forest is cut down and burned, in order to be used for farming and animal grazing.

Provide education services to educate the farmer on techniques, tips, and tools needed to be successful.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Why is this quote important?How does it relate to sustainability?

What can you do to help?

Create your own NGO

VolunteerOrganize

fundraisersDonate

Web Sources1. http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-

living/food-nutrition/?msc=S09554 (Nutrition and Obesity)

2. http://cyberschoolbus.un.org (Cyber School Bus- Part of the UN site)

3. http://aah-usa.org/ (Action Against Hunger, NGO)

4. http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s98v5n3.html (Myths about hunger)

5. http://world-map.nl/n (Maps)6. http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/

trans.html#applying (Sustainability article)7. http://www.fh.org (Food for the Hungry, NGO)8. http://www.savethechildren.org/ (Org. to stop

child hunger)