Global Hunger

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Global Hunger
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Myth or Fact?

• Many people go hungry because there is not enough
  food.
• Hunger exists where there are too many people to
  feed.
• Hungry people are too ignorant to change.
• Most food from foreign aid programs are not
  given, but are sold to the developing nations.
• Hunger exists in wealthy as well as poor nations.

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Hunger

• There are 6 billion people in the world
• 140,000 death per day 365,000 births
• 840 million people are hungry
• Each year, hunger takes the lives of
  approximately 7 million children
• 19,000 every day 800 every hour 13 every
  minute

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Terms to know

• Hunger
• Undernutrition
• Malnutrition
• Starvation
• Developing nation
• Paper pass activity

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Terms to know

• Hunger
• Weakened state caused by a prolonged lack of
  sufficient food
• Undernutrition
• Eating too little food to maintain a healthy body
  weight and normal activity levels
• Malnutrition
• Poor nutrition, usually endured for a long period
• Starvation
• Lack of food needed to sustain life

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Terms to Know

• Developing Nation
• A nation that has a low economic level of living
  standards and industrial production

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Hunger

• Hunger is a debilitating, devastating, intensely
  painful human experience that hinders an
  individuals ability to work productively, think
  clearly, and resist disease.

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Kinds of Hunger

• Malabsorptive hunger
• Parasites in a persons body that deplete the
  persons food of its nutritional value
• 20 of nutrients absorbed by parasites
• Parasites come from contaminated water, bad
  sanitation, and lack of hygiene

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Kinds of Hunger

• Seasonal under-nutrition
• Occurs in a community or society at only certain
  times of the year.

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Why does hunger exist?

• Is it because
• There are too many people to feed?
• There isnt enough food?
• Hungry people are too ignorant to change?

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Why does hunger exist?

• Differs from country to country but here are some
  main reasons
• Poverty
• Poor dont have enough to buy food or seeds,
  fertilizer and tools to grow
• Overpopulation
• More people than land can support, and population
  growth is so rapid it deteriorates quality of
  life
• Government Policies
• Policy affects food production, market prices and
  sale practices
• More to food for people or to military???
• Education
• Most people dont know how to improve their lives

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Health Consequences of Hunger

• Children and pregnant women always suffer first
• 1/3 ½ of all children in developing nations die
  before the age of 5
• Malnourished pregnant women generally give birth
  to low birth weight babies

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Food Security

• Poverty, social inequality and lack of education
  are primary causes and major obstacles to ending
  hunger and malnutrition in the world
• Food security is having access at all times to
  the food we need to lead an active and healthy
  life

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Food Security

• Food must be available, accessible and used
• Available
• Adequate amounts of good quality, safe food must
  be produced or imported at the national and local
  levels
• Accessible
• Food must be distributed and available locally
  and it must be affordable to all people
• Used
• Food needs to be used in the best way possible
  for each person to be healthy (sufficient in
  quantity, quality and variety for each
  individuals needs)

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Food Security

• To achieve national food security, a country must
  be able to import the food it needs and be able
  to store it, distribute it and ensure equal
  access to it
• Families must have the means to produce or
  purchase and have time and knowledge to meet the
  nutritional needs of family members

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Food Case Studies

• The case studies provided contrast past and
  present conditions in selected countries. You are
  given 2 countries from a region.
• Consider the factors causing the current
  situation related to hunger in each country
• What are the conditions related to hunger in
  terms of availability, accessibility and use of
  food

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National Programs That Help

• Food Stamp Program
• Use stamps like cash to buy eligible foods at
  grocery stores
• National School Feeding Programs
• Free or reduced school breakfast and lunch
• WIC Program (Women, Infants and Children)
• Helps children get a healthy start in life
  beginning with the mother
• Congregate Meals Program
• Group meals for people 50 and older
• Commodity Distribution Program
• Gives surplus food to low income people and
  organizations

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Suggestions?

• What can we do to help?