1. World Hunger CGW-4U

2. Hunger Scenario Remember a time when you have been hungry Symptoms:
Missed a meal, Delayed dinner or sick and unable to eat
Symptoms:
felt the gnawing pain of hunger
being tired or cranky as your body adapted to the lack of energy
Feel this feeling now

3. Hunger Scenario Situation: Symptoms:
Imagine you are unable to get food and this feeling continues for the whole day
Symptoms:
How has your feeling of hunger changed?
How has it impacted your body?
How has it impacted your mind?
How has it impacted your emotions?
Imagine the consequences of a day without food

4. Hunger Scenario Situation: Its been 1 week Symptoms:
You have eaten a small amount of food and water
You have lost weight
Symptoms:
Imagine what the hunger feels like now
How is your ability to perform simple tasks?
How much energy do you have?
Imagine the consequences of 1 week without food

5. Hunger Scenario Situation: Its been 1 year …. Or a lifetime
Without adequate food or water
Any thoughts, feelings, or consequences of hunger that you mentally visualized?

6. Global Hunger
Approximately 925 million people do not receive adequate daily food supplies
One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished
15,000 children die each day from diseases related to lack of food
During this class 478 people will die of starvation

7. Definitions Chronic Persistent Hunger: Undernutrition: Malnutrition:
Long-term and consistent conditions of poor nutrition. Has little to do with food shortages
Undernutrition:
Caused by not getting enough food to eat – poor food availability
Malnutrition:
Caused by poorly balanced diet – not receiving enough nutrients
Famine:
rapid and severe under nutrition – food shortages occur due to natural conditions. 1/10th of hunger related deaths

8. Did you eat breakfast today?
Yes No

9. There is simply not enough food produced to feed everyone...
True
False

10. Overpopulation is the direct cause of world hunger....
True
False

11. True
False
Poverty, corrupt economic systems and armed conflict are the major causes of world hunger....

12. Increasing agricultural land use will solve the crisis....
True
False

13. True
False
Free trade and free markets will decrease the cost of food and increase global food sharing...

14. True
False
Developed countries could alleviate world hunger by providing food aid to suffering countries

15. Perceptions on Global Hunger
There is simply not enough food produced to feed everyone
Incorrect: Current enough food to provide a 3200 calorie diet for every person each day. Global food production is not the cause of global hunger
Overpopulation is the direct cause of world hunger
Incorrect: there is no correlation between population density and hunger. Often significant food resources per capita coexist with hunger

16. Perceptions on Global Hunger
Increasing agricultural land use will solve the crisis
Incorrect: Small scale farming using land more efficiently and produce larger yields compared to commercial farming
Free trade and free markets will decrease the cost of food and increase global food sharing
Incorrect: large corporations produce food at lower costs and benefits from free trade agreements.
Developed countries could alleviate world hunger by providing food aid to suffering countries
Incorrect: cannot provide long-term sustainable support by providing aid. Instead, local food economies are impacted.

17. Causes of World Hunger Poverty Corrupt Economic Systems
Lack of resources and unequal distribution of wealth (land, tools or money)
Corrupt Economic Systems
Control over resources and income is based on military, political and economic power
Conflict Surrounding Cause/Importance of Hunger
Receives less media attention and little accountability
Armed Conflict
War disrupts agricultural production, and governments often spend more on arms than on social programs

18. World Hunger and the Economy
The Global Food System
based on large scale commercialization.
domination by large transnational corporations
control trade and pricing of food commodities
Increasing emphasis on growing cash-crops for export
Developing Countries
Are economically dependent on single commodities
Commodity and food prices have not risen significantly while the cost of input has risen dramatically.

19. Poverty and World Hunger
Malnutrition
Energy
Decreased
Ability to Learn
Ability to Work
Poverty
Shortened
Life Expectancy
High Death Rate
for Children
Low Disease
Resistance

20. Effects of World Hunger
High Infant Mortality Rates
Malnourished women are more likely to be sick, have smaller babies, and die earlier
Where infant and child mortality is high, birth rates are also high
Vulnerability to Common Illnesses
A malnourished child often lacks the strength to survive any common illness
Increased Risk of Infection
Weakened immune systems and inability to fight off recurrent and lingering infections

21. Effects of World Hunger
Impediments to Physical Development
Deprived essential proteins, micronutrients and fatty acids they need to grow adequately – stunted growth, poor brain development
Impediments to Economic Growth
Impacts educational levels, social services and industrial development
Acute Vulnerability during Disasters
Lack of supplies, resources, planning causes almost immediate death

22. Considered Solutions Creating More Cropland Using More Fertilizer
Urbanization
Soil degradation
Consider productivity of land
Using More Fertilizer
Ground water contamination
Cost
Lack of effectiveness

23. Considered Solutions Using More Pesticides Genetically Modified Foods
Costs
Harm humans
Pest become immune
Genetically Modified Foods
Seed control
Additional costs
Fewer jobs
Human and environment threats