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Not enough food to go around
Q: Is this statement true or false?
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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
(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 Vocabulary
 Hunger: The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by
a prolonged lack of food.
Hunger and Poverty Vocabulary
 Poverty
 The state or condition of having little or no money,
goods, or means of support.
Hunger and Poverty Vocabulary
 Malnutrition
 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 Vocabulary
 Sustainability
 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 Vocabulary
 Marasmus
 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 Vocabulary
 Kwashiorkor
 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 Facts
 24,000 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 Hunger
War
 Kills farmers lower food
production
 Healthcare facilities are
destroyed
 Water supplies get
polluted spread of
disease
 Armies may disrupt food
supplies in order to starve
their enemies.
Causes of Hunger
Low Productivity
 Some communities fail
to produce enough
food to last from
season to season.
 Lack of water or floods
can destroy crops.
Causes of Hunger
Low 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 Hunger
Lack of Skills
 Farmers lack the knowledge of effective farming
techniques.
Causes of Hunger
Disease
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.
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http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/map.ht
m (Poverty Map of the US)
Answer the questions on the next slide.
Questions
Which state has the highest percentage of poverty?
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Mississippi
Which state has the lowest percentage of child poverty?
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New Hampshire
Where is the highest percentage of child poverty?
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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 Nutrition
Food Benefits:
 Food provides energy
 Keeps you alive!
 Helps with cell growth and regeneration
 Helps 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 Damage
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Damage to the nervous system
Low birth weight
Small heads (Smaller brain)
Distorted liver, kidney, and pancreas
Prone to respiratory illness
Low intelligence
Learning disabilities
Behavior problems
Irritable
Cry more
Diseases in Children
These diseases are caused by malnutrition:
 Marasmus
 Kwashiorkor
 Vitamin A Deficiency
 Anaemia
Other Diseases?
 Diarrhea
 Respiratory infections
 Malaria
 Measles
 AIDS
 Intestinal 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 children
 Improve food and water hygiene
 Prevent the spread of AIDS
 Control mosquitoes
 De-worm children
Solutions -NGOs
 Red Cross- Disaster relief
 Action Against Hunger- Prevent hunger
 Coca-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 crops
 Refrain 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
 Volunteer
 Organize fundraisers
 Donate
Web Sources
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http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/foodnutrition/?msc=S09554 (Nutrition and Obesity)
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org (Cyber School Bus- Part of
the UN site)
http://aah-usa.org/ (Action Against Hunger, NGO)
http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/1998/s98v5n3.
html (Myths about hunger)
http://world-map.nl/n (Maps)
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/trans.html#applying
(Sustainability article)
http://www.fh.org (Food for the Hungry, NGO)
http://www.savethechildren.org/ (Org. to stop child
hunger)