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Oversupply vs. Hunger

Oversupply vs. Hunger. The unfair division of food over the world. The EU-Comenius-Project is financially granted by the EU-Comission. Facts. More than 850 millions of people don´t have enough to eat . Every day 25 000 people die of hunger and poverty.

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Oversupply vs. Hunger

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  1. Oversupply vs. Hunger The unfair division of food over the world The EU-Comenius-Project is financially granted by the EU-Comission

  2. Facts • More than 850 millions of people don´t have enough to eat. • Every day 25 000 people die of hunger and poverty. • Every six seconds a child younger than five dies from underfeeding. • The food production of all countrys together would be enough to feed all the people round the world.

  3. Definition of Hunger • Hunger is a signal of the body. It tells the person to eat something. • Food provides the energy and the nutrient we need. A permanent deficit of food and nutrient derogates the human development and makes even the simplest activities impossible. Such a deficit is life-threatening.

  4. Forms of Hunger • Famines • Acute emergency situation • Undernutrition • Too less food for a long space of time • Malnutition • Enouth food, but without enough proteins, vitamins or minerals

  5. Famines • When we see pictures of hunger in the media they are mostly about famines. • The pictures show totally weak humans who havn´t had anything because there is no food around. • In fact less than 10% of all starving people are in such a situation.

  6. Undernutrition • Much more often is the long lasting untersupply with food. Undernutritioned people don´t get enough colories for a normal life over many months. • The body of this people tries to compansate the lack of food by turning down the physical and psychic abilities. • Hunger also weakens the immune system and every innocent disease can be deathly.

  7. Malnutrition • Even when there´s enough food around a lack of vitamins and minarals can occur. This is called malnutrition. • It is often the result of a one-sided nutrition and often occur in poor regions where the people aren´t able to buy differend kinds of food. • It causes many diseases and weakens the immune system.

  8. Where does hunger occur? • Hunger is unequally distributed over the world. Most of the starving live in Asia, followed by Africa. • Hunger is a problem in many Latin American and east european countrys too. • Even in rich countrys live people who don´t have enough to eat. In the US for example lived 2008 10,8 millions of people who hadn´d enough food.

  9. Where does hunger occur?

  10. Who is affected? • Especially affected of hunger are people who live agrarian areas. 50% of the starving are farmers themselves. • Another 20 % of the starving are farm-workers without own land. They are too poor to buy food. • So most of the starving people live just where the food is produced!

  11. Reasons for Hunger • Natural Reasons • Drought • Flooding • War • Poverty • Damages of the environment

  12. There needn´t be hunger • The food which is produced in the world, would be enough for everyone. • The problem is the unfair distribution.

  13. Thank you for your attention! The EU-Comenius-Project is financially granted by the EU-Comission

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