ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 1 ActionAid schools | June 2012 Vasta, from Malawi, pouring drying rice from a basket. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS/ACTIONAID ActionAid schools | June 2012

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 2 Why do we need food? Energy Resistance to disease Keeps our bodies healthy Growth Children playing games, India PHOTO: TOM PIETRASIK/ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 3 Who should have access to food? Access to food is a basic human right The right to food enables people to live in: dignity free from hunger food insecurity malnutrition Schoolgirls eating lunch, India PHOTO: LIZ NEWBON/ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 4 If access to food is a basic human right, why do so many people globally go hungry? Think  Pair  Share

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 5 How many people go hungry globally?

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 6 “We do not know how we will survive until the next harvest and we are very afraid that something bad will happen... That we will start to die.” Ebrima Mbye, The Gambia How has drought affected Ebrima’s family? Ebrima Mbye, from The Gambia, on his family’s farm PHOTO: ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 7 Why can’t Anastasia grow enough food to live on? Anastasia, from The Democratic Republic of Congo, harvesting crops PHOTO: ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 8 A woman making her way through rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID How has natural disaster affected the Vilme family? The Vilme family, from Haiti, sitting amongst the rubble of their home. PHOTO: MOISES SAMAN/PANOS/ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 9 Hakeema Khatoon, Pakistan. Her husband used to catch fish as his living. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Fishermen, from Pakistan, going out to sea in a trawler with the hope of catching fish. PHOTO: WARRICK PAGE/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Why has Akeema’s family had to give up fishing?

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 10 How is climate change affecting our food supply? Livestock Deforestation A paddy field destroyed by flood waters, India. PHOTO: NILAYAN/ACTIONAID Herders, from Kenya, bring their cattle in search of pasture and water. PHOTO: SIEGFRIED MODOLA/SHOOT THE EARTH/ACTIONAID A man walks past a dead cow, Kenya. Livestock can die due to dehydration during periods of drought. PHOTO: JEHAD NGA/CORBIS/ACTIONAID A woman and child, from Kenya, collecting water from a dried watering hole. PHOTO: DES WILLIE/ACTIONAID Kondha tribal people, from India, examining the effects of deforestation on their land. PHOTO: FIROZ AHMAD FIROZ/ACTIONAID Serious soil erosion, Malawi. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 11 What are some of the causes of hunger? Simon, Rose and their child, from Kenya, standing on their drought damaged farmland. PHOTO: GRAEME WILLIAMS/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID Yama, from Senegal, is not allowed access to her land to grow food for her children. PHOTO: CANDACE FEIT/ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 12 Unequal distribution of foodNational and international policies Climate changeLack of access to land How can we create a world without hunger? Think of some big solutions!

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 13 How is ActionAid fighting hunger? Lacherie, 8, from Rwanda, drinking cow’s milk at school. PHOTO: SULAH NUWAMANYA/ACTIONAID Doreth, from Rwanda, feeding a cow at her daughter’s school. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Khudaija Pandrani, from Pakistan, is a farmer who has benefitted from access to a seed bank. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Lila, from Haiti, shows an example of disaster risk reduction. Digging small canals and dirt walls provides channels for heavy rainfall. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Yerrampalli, from India, at a land rights march for local women. PHOTO: ACTIONAID Vicky, from Brazil, food rights campaigner. PHOTO: ACTIONAID

ActionAid schools | June 2012 | 14 For further information visit ActionAid schools | June 2012 Hands holding rice husks, the hard protective covering of rice grains. PHOTO: SVEN TORFINN/PANOS PICTURES/ACTIONAID