Not enough food to go around

2. Q: Is this statement true or false? 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? Not enough food to go around

3. 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.

4. 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%.

5. 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.

6. Hunger and Poverty Vocabulary • Hunger: The discomfort, weakness, or pain caused by a prolonged lack of food.

7. Hunger and Poverty Vocabulary • Poverty • The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Who’s Hungry? • Hunger disproportionately affects people who are living in extreme poverty. • The majority of people who are undernourished live in developing countries.

14. 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.

15. Causes of Hunger What do you think are the main causes of hunger?

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. Causes of Hunger Lack of Skills • Farmers lack the knowledge of effective farming techniques.

20. Causes of Hunger Disease Sick Can’t farm Malnourished Hunger decreases energy Slow recovery Possible death

21. 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.

22. 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.

23. Poverty in the U.S. • http://www.nccbuscc.org/cchd/povertyusa/map.htm (Poverty Map of the US) • Answer the questions on the next slide.

24. Questions Which state has the highest percentage of poverty? • Mississippi Which state has the lowest percentage of child poverty? • New Hampshire Where is the highest percentage of child poverty? • Washington D.C.

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

28. Value of Nutrition Food Benefits: • Food provides energy • Keeps you alive! • Helps with cell growth and regeneration • Helps protect your body from disease

29. What does hunger look like? • What do people consume everyday? • Give some examples:

30. Why is malnutrition a problem? • Malnutrition causes permanent damage to the body. • These damages mostly affect children. • Malnutrition causes physical, mental, and social damage.

31. Examples of Damage • 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

32. Diseases in Children These diseases are caused by malnutrition: • Marasmus • Kwashiorkor • Vitamin A Deficiency • Anaemia

33. Other Diseases? • Diarrhea • Respiratory infections • Malaria • Measles • AIDS • Intestinal parasites

34. 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

35. Solutions -NGOs • Red Cross- Disaster relief • Action Against Hunger- Prevent hunger • Coca-Cola Foundation- Improve community life through education.

36. Sustainability • Sustainable agriculture refers to the ability of a farm to produce food indefinitely, without causing irreversible damage to ecosystem health.

37. 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.

38. “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?

39. What can you do to help? • Create your own NGO • Volunteer • Organize fundraisers • Donate

40. Web Sources • http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/food-nutrition/?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)