1. A Fair Harvest?

2. “There is enough food in the world to feed everyone”
A Fair Harvest?
“There is enough food in the world to feed everyone”
Can everyone be fed?
Why are people hungry in the world?
Is this true?

3. How many calories do you need a day?
It’s True!
The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World farming produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite a 70 percent population increase.
This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 calories per person per day.
How many calories do you need a day?

4. Discuss
Why do you think some people have less food then others if there is enough for everyone?

5. Arrange yourselves like this and imagine that your class is ‘Africa’.
Arrange the tables in your class or groups of students, like a map of Africa with 5 pupils in each group. Together, the class of 30 will represent the population of Africa – about 1 billion people. You can explain this to the class, and say that each person represents 34 million Africans. You may also like to explain that out of the 30, five (about 170 million) live in countries north of the Sahara – these are often classed together as generally the richer African countries.

6. If there are 30 of you, each pupil represents about 34 million Africans.
You can ask questions about where: the Sahara, South Africa and countries like Egypt and Uganda are.

7. Four tables of pupils have to work on their land and grow most of the food that they eat, rather than buy it.
You could ask the question as to how many pupils grow their own food at home, and how much of the food that they eat is from the shops. You might like to use actual props for this part (spades, bowls and money) or use different counters/picture cards. How would it feel if you worked hard for months trying to grow crops for harvest, but none of them grew well?

8. Three tables have less than 60p a day to pay for medicine, clothes, food and anything else.

9. Two tables are underweight and are always short of food, eating about one meal a day.

10. A Fair Harvest? A Fair Harvest?
Scenario 1:
A family in the UK are short on bread. There has been a bad wheat harvest in the UK. Do you think the family will still be able to get bread for their diets?
Scenario 2:
A family in rural Africa are short on bread. There has been a bad harvest locally of wheat. Do you think the family will still be able to get bread for their diets?

11. Time for a Game Continent? Biscuits Number of Pupils 1 5 4 15 9 3 10 2
The number of pupils represent the population within each continent, the biscuits represent the distribution of food. Which continent belongs with each?

12. Time for a Game Continent Biscuits Number of Pupils Africa 1 5 Asia 415
Europe 9
South America 3
USA 10 2
Australia
Antarctica

13. What does this tell you about food?

14. Is this Fair?
Do you think everyone has a right to food and water, no matter who or where they are?
Tasks
Complete the worksheet “Food Fairness” in groups
Discuss your results as a class
Compare your rights to the “right to food” on the next page

15. Right to Food!
“The right to food is a human right recognized under international law which protects the right of all human beings to feed themselves in dignity, either by producing their food or by purchasing it.”

16. Right to Water!
"The human right to water entitles everyone to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic use”uses"

17. Is there a solution? Discuss:
Can you think of any ways food can be more evenly distributed?
What can you do to make sure there is more food to go around? Why are people still hungry in the UK if there is plenty of food?

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