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With Rio+20 (the UN conference on Sustainable Development) starting on June 20th, ActionAid has put together teaching resources to help learners explore issues around sustainable development. The PowerPoint and accompanying handout and teacher's notes explores sustainable development through the lens of food rights. Case studies illustrate why people are going hungry around the world and encourage learners to evaluate different approaches to solving the problem of hunger. Suggested for KS3 Geography and Science lessons. Also available to download: handout, teacher's notes.

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Page 1: Rio+20 Food Rights - PowerPoint (by ActionAid)

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Vasta, from Malawi, pouring drying rice from a basket.PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Why do we need food?

Energy

Resistance to disease

Keeps our bodies healthy

Growth

Children playing games, IndiaPHOTO: TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID

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Who should have access to food?

• Access to food is a basic human right

• The right to food enables people to live in:

dignity

free from hunger

food insecurity

malnutrition

Schoolgirls eating lunch, IndiaPHOTO: LIZ NEWBON/ACTIONAID

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If access to food is a basic human right, why

do so many people globally go hungry?

Think Pair Share

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How many people go hungry globally?

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“We do not know how we will survive until the next harvest and we are very afraid that something bad will happen... That we will start to die.”

Ebrima Mbye, The Gambia

How has drought affected Ebrima’s family?

Ebrima Mbye, from The Gambia, on his family’s farmPHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Why can’t Anastasia grow enough food to live on?

Anastasia, from The Democratic Republic of Congo, harvesting cropsPHOTO: ACTIONAID

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A woman making her way through rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID

How has natural disaster affected the Vilme family?

The Vilme family, from Haiti, sitting amongst the rubble of their home.PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Hakeema Khatoon, Pakistan. Her husband used to catch fish as his living.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

Fishermen, from Pakistan, going out to sea in a trawler with the hope of catching fish.PHOTO: WARRICK PAGE/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID

Why has Akeema’s family had to give up fishing?

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How is climate change affecting our food supply?

Livestock DeforestationA paddy field destroyed by flood waters, India.PHOTO: NILAYAN/ACTIONAID

Herders, from Kenya, bring their cattle in search of pasture and water.PHOTO: SIEGFRIED MODOLA/SHOOT THE EARTH/ACTIONAID

A man walks past a dead cow, Kenya. Livestock can die due to dehydration during periods of drought.PHOTO: JEHAD NGA/CORBIS/ACTIONAID

A woman and child, from Kenya, collecting water from a dried watering hole.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

Kondha tribal people, from India, examining the effects of deforestation on their land.PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAD FIROZ/ACTIONAID

Serious soil erosion, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID

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What are some of the causes of hunger?

Simon, Rose and their child, from Kenya, standing on their drought damaged farmland.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID

Yama, from Senegal, is not allowed access to her land to grow food for her children.PHOTO: CANDACE FEIT/ACTIONAID

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Unequal distribution of food National and international policies

Climate change Lack of access to land

How can we create a world without hunger?

Think of some big solutions!

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How is ActionAid fighting hunger?

Lacherie, 8, from Rwanda, drinking cow’s milk at school.PHOTO: SULAH NUWAMANYA/ACTIONAID

Doreth, from Rwanda, feeding a cow at her daughter’s school.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

Khudaija Pandrani, from Pakistan, is a farmer who has benefitted from access to a seed bank.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

Lila, from Haiti, shows an example of disaster risk reduction. Digging small canals and dirt walls provides channels for heavy rainfall.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

Yerrampalli, from India, at a land rights march for local women.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

Vicky, from Brazil, food rights campaigner.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Hands holding rice husks, the hard protective covering of rice grains.PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID