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World Food Day 2012: KS3

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Pupils at Langobaya school Kenya, collect their free school lunch.PHOTO: SØREN BJERREGAARD/ACTIONAID

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Maize is the most widely grown staple crop in Africa – more than 300 million Africans depend

on it as their main food source. Thikhala Chilembwe, 14, from Malawi. PHOTO: CAMERON MCNEE/MISSIONMALAWI//ACTIONAID

Margret David harvests a healthy crop from her garden in Malawi.PHOTO: ACTIONAID

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Why has this maize crop dried up? Can you think of three reasons?

The Yaa family's failed maize crop in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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Mariam Yaa, 10, collects water and tends the family’s goats in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

Mariam Yaa, 10, at her homestead in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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The Yaa family’s maize crop has failed due to recurrent drought.

As a result, the family have only 5kg of beans and 5kg of rice to eat for the next three weeks.

Karisa, Mariam and Karembo Yaa at home in Langobaya, Kenya.PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID

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Consequences wheel

What are the consequences of drought?

No water supply

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Mukta and her friends in their home village in Sunamganj district, Bangladesh.TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID

Mukta’s mother, Shofikun, plants rice with the community in Char Harikesh, Bangladesh. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

Flash floods used to happen here every four to six years. However, due to deforestation and climate

change, there have been floods here for eight out of the last 10 years.

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Mukta and her mother Shofikun.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

“I feel afraid. When the floods come, our houses fall – everything collapses. Strong floods suddenly rush down the mountains and we run to the school building to take shelter. We don’t have enough food. You get pains in your stomach if you can’t eat.”

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Mukta and her mother Shofikun. PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

Mukta in the family's vegetable garden.PHOTO: NICOLAS AXELROD/ACTIONAID

“Father sowed the fields and mother and I helped with the weeding. After the paddy grew, we dried the crops under the sun and then sold some, but kept half for ourselves. Before, we went

hungry and earning money was difficult, but now I like the harvesting season.”

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Reuben plays with his village friends. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

Reuben Chidimba with a baby goat at home in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Thabu Chidimba, a smallholder farmer, in the fields she shares with other local women.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Describe what you see in this picture. Do you think it would be easy or difficult to grow food in this area?

Typical landscape in Rumphi district, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID0

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Lina Gondwe helps sprouting maize plants to grow.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

Compost heaps made by women farmers in Rumphi district, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

What links all these pictures together?

Contrasting methods of growing maize, Rumphi District, Malawi.PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Thabu and other women farmers on their irrigated land, Rumphi District, MalawiPHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS/ACTIONAID

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Key question: why do one in six people go hungry?

Global food prices are rising due to extreme weather

Lamb, beef and cheese have the largest food footprint

There are too many people in the world and not enough food

The way we are producing food is unsustainable

We are eating too much meat We are wasting too much food

Too much land is being used to grow crops for biofuels

People living in poverty don’t have money to buy food

Climate change is causing more extreme weather

People in developing countries are not growing enough food

We need to redesign the whole food system

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Why do one in six people go

hungry?

Most relevant points

Relevant points

Irrelevant points

Zone of relevance

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• Investigate one of the questions above. • Present your findings to the class in a creative way.

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Further information sources/ interesting articlesHunger http://www.wfp.org/hunger/faqs The last thing our hungry world needs is more food http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1353810/Beddingtons-perfect-storm-Last-thing-hungry-world-needs-food.html#ixzz26pnCk2EKGlobal food prices rise in July due to extreme weatherhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19193390 Lamb, beef and cheese have the largest food footprinthttp://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/986252/lamb_beef_and_cheese_have_largest_food_footprint.html Meat eaters guide to climate and health http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/ The food crisis should not be left to cowboy capitalists, Jeremy Grantham, Financial Times August 14 2012, http://www.ft.com The future of food and farming, John Beddington, Chief Scientific adviser http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/foresight/docs/food-and-farming/11-547-future-of-food-and-farming-summary Water, drought and food http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/faqs.html