The Business of Hunger: Poverty, Environment, and Economy

1. Lecture 24 Managing Biological Resources & Environmental Equality “The Business of Hunger” Now playing: Kurt Bestor, Sam Cardon “Prayer of the Children”

2. Goals: • To identify some of the relationships between poverty and environmental degradation. • To learn how to use critical thinking in science and social issues. Assignment: Apply Critical thinking to Hunger issues Websites: http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites http://www.worldhunger.org/ http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/hungerweb/data.html http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/nutrition/tnan.htm http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol2no2/article1.html http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/hungerweb/intro/basic_definitions.html http://www.csis.org/nge/nge_mon.html http://www.ifg.org/ http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2000/041200.htm#III http://www.ita.doc.gov/

3. Ancient Byzantine Parable “A man with bread has many problems, a man without bread has only one.”

4. A Degenerating Circle: Poverty/Environmental/Economy • Why does hunger exist in a world of plenty? • What are the changes in world food production? • Is genetic diversity important for survival?

5. Growing disparities in incomes among regions

6. People on the Move

7. Urban Growth Spurt Continues

8. 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 Yields Are Up, But Growth is Slowing 5 4 3 Yield (metric tons/hectare) 2 1 0 Wheat Yield Maize Yield Rice Yield

9. Progress in Feeding the World Has Varied Widely by Region

10. Despite Gains, Millions Go Hungry

12. Degraded Soil Means Less Food World Totals (million hectares) Vegetation Removal 579 Overexploitation 133 Overgrazing 679 Agricultural Activities 522 Industrial and Bioindustrial 23

13. Food Supply Increasingly Relies on Irrigation

14. Some people argue that it’s not a matter of too little food...

15. More fertilizer: More food, but more pollution too

21. Increasing food production Adding plants to human diet Aquaculture Biotechnology Sustainable agriculture What can YOU do?

22. Farmed Fish Are a Growing Share of the Global Fish Harvest

23. Biotechnology

24. Forest Loss Is Severe in the Tropics

25. Amazon Deforestation Remains High

26. Many of Earth’s Forests Have Been Cleared or Degraded

30. A man who has bread has many problems, a man without bread has only one. Byzantine Proverb For more than half a century I have worked with the production of more and better wheat for feeding the hungry people, but wheat is merely a catalyst, a part of the picture. I am interested in the total development of human beings. Only by attacking the whole problem can we raise the standard of living for all people in all communities, so that they will be able to live decent lives. This is something we want for all people on this planet. --Dr. Norman Borlaug, (1914 - present) 1970 Nobel Prize winner What greater human right is there than the right to eat? Senator Bob Dole (1923 - 1998)

31. A Degenerating Circle: Poverty/Environmental/Economy • Why does hunger exist in a world of plenty? • What are the changes in world food production? • Is genetic diversity important for survival?