food problems around the world

What is hunger and famine?

• Food is one of the most important assets in life, you need it to survive.

• Three degrees of hunger: acute, chronic, and hidden.• Famine: caused by the shortage of inability of people

to obtain food. Usually caused by low food production resulting from drought, other factors,

or it could be a result of the inability of a country or its population to afford to buy food.

Alarming Facts About Hunger

The WHO estimates that one-third of the world population is well-fed, one third is under-fed and one-third is starving.

925 million people in the world do not have enough to eat.

Every 3.6 second someone dies of hunger.

Every year 15 million children die of hunger.

65% of the world’s hungry populaces live in only seven countries: India, China, The Democratic, Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Ethiopia.

Undernourishment kills more people every year than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined.

Alarming Facts About Hunger

Causes For Lack Of Food In The World

Over-exploitation of environment

Over -population

Exclusion of poor countries from

global trade market

Unequal development

Food wastage

Depletion in food granary Natural

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Hunger And The Human Body

BRAIN: A healthy brain needs 20 percent of your body’s energy

which comes from food consumption.

HEART:A healthy heart pumps a steady supply of blood throughout

the body. An undernourished heart shrinks.

VITAL ORGANS:The liver and kidneys filter out toxins and waste, while your immune system fends off. Dangerous toxins build up as the

liver and kidneys fail.

SKIN & BONES:Healthy skin shields the body from infection. Hungry skin

cracks, becoming a gateway for infection. Bones stop growing also known as stunting.

The global food crisis"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much

money as about 40% of the global population, and yet 850 million people have to go to bed hungry every night."

Food as proportion of household budget

• While Australian households spend only 17% of their budget on food, Nigerian families spend 73% of their budgets to eat, Vietnamese 65%, Indonesians half. - NY Times

• In Bangladesh, food consumes more than half most people’s earnings and rent takes up almost all the rest. -UK Guardian

Food problems

THE MOST EFECTED REGION

The problem?

• Drought – mainly farmers, no irrigation

• Ban natural resources

• Not enough money

Political Causes and Effects

• African farmers cultivate small plots of land that do not produce enough to meet the needs of their families. The problem is compounded by the farmers' lack of bargaining power and lack of access to land, finance and technology.

• The government had no choice but to raise prices because there is nothing importing or exporting. The prices for tools, fertilizers, seeds, and other farming oriented needs are constantly rising, and the farmer’s don’t have a constant income.

• Lastly, Africa’s technology isn’t most supreme, and their agriculture is terrible, and the government isn’t doing enough to help them meet their needs.

Social Causes and Effects

• Given that Africa is rural, and dry, all they do is farm, in Africa farmers make up 80 percent of the population.

• This becomes a social aspect as well because farming is their everything. That is how they get their food. Since the droughts and other causes of hunger and famine, people have to begin to migrate.

• Africa’s population has been rising as well, therefore making it hard for people to migrate.

Economic Causes and Effects

• Drought. It has ruined harvests and left people and livestock without food and water. Due to drought in Africa, this has led to a shocking amount of bad natural resources then leading to little to no crops being grown or harvested.

• The main problem of famine and hunger is not only drought but most African countries are not self-sufficient in food and are relying on imports and income to pay for them.

• The food prices have gone up around 57 percent, more than 41 percent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa live on less than $1 per day, and 32 percent are undernourished. No money to buy food, and bad resources and drought lead to no food being grown. Leaving everyone starving.

Are there solutions?

Solution 1

Microloans: small sum of money which an individual

borrows from another individual, group or legal entity with the condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date (sometimes with interest). supporters are giving money to people in Africa to start small businesses to start making money to pay for food, and to possibly grow food. .

Positives

• People will be able to start businesses

• Be able to make money from their businesses

• With the money you can grow crops

Negatives

• Loans eventually have to be paid back• Can only receive a certain amount of

money• Money may be wasted • Through the process, money could

potentially get lost

Solution 2

Tree planting:prevents deforestation which is

also a problem in Africa. As well, farmers are struggling to feed their families while farmable land could diminish by up to two thirds the next 20 years.

Positives

• Tree planting can prevent hunger. Many foreign companies in Africa are planting trees in areas that could have been used for food production.

• These newly built forests will prevent erosion, desertification, and best, create a better local climate for poor farmers and help them increase their food production.

• Positive effect on environment as well.

Negatives

• Trees will take a while to grow • Only 1 tree is planted for every 28

cut

The Best Solution?

Tree planting will in future will offer quality wood from sustainable forestry without depleting natural resources. The harvesting of sustainable natural resources will create jobs, income opportunities and economical development as local supporting industries are created.

SOLUTION 2!

WORLD FOOD PROBLEMS

Future prospectiveExpanded cultivation of food cropsAdjustment in priorities Increase production in agricultureImprovement/expansion in irrigation systemPopulation control?World food security

"SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION"

Food security: To feed an estimated 870 million hungry people on the planet, we need to increase production of basic staple foods by 60 percent.

Nutrition: Two billion worldwide lack micronutrients vital for good health. Agriculture must become more nutrition-sensitive, with a stronger focus on fruits, vegetables, and other nutrient-dense foods.

Food Systems: Since every aspect of our food systems has an effect on the final availability and accessibility of diverse, nutritious foods, we must constantly strive towards a healthier global food system.

Sustainability: By using resources more efficiently at every stage along the food chain, we can increase the amount of healthy food available worldwide. Getting the most food from every drop of water, plot of land, and speck of fertilizer saves resources for the future.

India Food Banking Network

Food banking is a system that moves food from donors to the people who need it and engages all sectors of society in the effort.

It is a non-profit flexible distribution model that acquires donated/ purchased food and makes it available to the hungry through the network of institutional feeding programs.

These programs include school feeding programs, charitable hospitals, orphanages, the destitute, beggars, homeless etc.

To know more about Indian Food Banking Network, please visit: http://www.indiafoodbanking.org/

My involvement!

Stop Hunger Now! Stop Hunger Now launched its meal packaging

program in 2005. The meals combine rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix, including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Each meal costs only 25 cents. Has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly. International.

‘a massacre of the world’s poor’Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s

socialist president:

“The problem is not the production of food …

it is the economic, social and political model of the world.

The capitalist model is in crisis.”