What is hunger and famine?

• Food is one of the most important assets in life, you

need it to survive.
• Three degrees of hunger: acute, chronic, and hidden.
• Famine: caused by the shortage of inability of people to
obtain food. Usually caused by low food production
resulting from drought, other factors,
or it could be a result of the inability
of a country or its population to afford
to buy food.
 Alarming Facts About Hunger

 The WHO estimates that one-

third of the world population
is well-fed, one third is
under-fed and one-third is
starving.

 925 million people in the

world do not have enough to
eat.

 Every 3.6 second someone

dies of hunger.

 Every year 15 million

children die of hunger.
Alarming Facts About Hunger

 65% of the world’s hungry

populaces live in only seven
countries: India, China, The
Democratic, Republic of
Congo, Bangladesh,
Indonesia, Pakistan, and
Ethiopia.

 Undernourishment kills more

people every year than
malaria, tuberculosis and
AIDS combined.
Causes For Lack Of Food In The World
Exclusion of
poor
Over- countries
exploitation from global Over -
of trade market population
environment

Food Unequal
wastage development

Urbanization
Natural
Depletion in calamities
food granary
Hunger And The Human Body

BRAIN:
A healthy brain needs 20 percent of your body’s energy
which comes from food consumption.

HEART:
A healthy heart pumps a steady supply of blood throughout
the body. An undernourished heart shrinks.

VITAL ORGANS:
The liver and kidneys filter out toxins and waste, while your
immune system fends off. Dangerous toxins build up as the
liver and kidneys fail.

SKIN & BONES:

Healthy skin shields the body from infection. Hungry skin
cracks, becoming a gateway for infection. Bones stop growing
also known as stunting.
 The global food crisis
"The world's 200 wealthiest people have as much
money as about 40% of the global population, and yet
850 million people have to go
to bed hungry every night."
 Food as proportion of household budget

• While Australian households spend only 17%

of their budget on food, Nigerian families
spend 73% of their budgets to eat,
Vietnamese 65%, Indonesians half.
- NY Times
• In Bangladesh, food consumes more than half
most people’s earnings and rent takes up
almost all the rest. -UK Guardian
 Food problems

THE MOST EFECTED REGION

 The problem?

• Drought – mainly farmers, no irrigation

• Ban natural resources

• Not enough money

 Political Causes and Effects
• African farmers cultivate small plots of land that do not
produce enough to meet the needs of their families. The
problem is compounded by the farmers' lack of bargaining
power and lack of access to land, finance and technology.
• The government had no choice but to raise prices because
there is nothing importing or exporting. The prices for tools,
fertilizers, seeds, and other farming oriented needs are
constantly rising, and the farmer’s don’t have a constant
income.
• Lastly, Africa’s technology isn’t most supreme, and their
agriculture is terrible, and the government isn’t doing
enough to help them meet their needs.
 Social Causes and Effects
• Given that Africa is rural, and dry, all they do is farm, in
Africa farmers make up 80 percent of the population.
• This becomes a social aspect as well because farming
is their everything. That is how they get their food.
Since the droughts and other causes of hunger and
famine, people have to begin to migrate.
• Africa’s population has been rising as well, therefore
making it hard for people to migrate.
 Economic Causes and Effects
• Drought. It has ruined harvests and left people and livestock
without food and water. Due to drought in Africa, this has led
to a shocking amount of bad natural resources then leading to
little to no crops being grown or harvested.
• The main problem of famine and hunger is not only drought
but most African countries are not self-sufficient in food and
are relying on imports and income to pay for them.
• The food prices have gone up around 57 percent, more than
41 percent of people in Sub-Saharan Africa live on less than
$1 per day, and 32 percent are undernourished. No money to
buy food, and bad resources and drought lead to no food
being grown. Leaving everyone starving.
Are there
solutions
?
 Solution 1
Microloans:
small sum of money which an individual borrows from
another individual, group or legal entity with the
condition that it be returned or repaid at a later date
(sometimes with interest). supporters are giving
money to people in Africa to start small businesses to
start making money to pay for food, and to possibly
grow food. .
 Positives
• People will be able to start businesses
• Be able to make money from their
businesses
• With the money you can grow crops
 Negatives
• Loans eventually have to be paid back
• Can only receive a certain amount of money
• Money may be wasted
• Through the process, money could potentially
get lost
 Solution 2
Tree planting:
prevents deforestation which is also a
problem in Africa. As well, farmers are
struggling to feed their families while
farmable land could diminish by up to two
thirds the next 20 years.
 Positives
• Tree planting can prevent hunger. Many foreign
companies in Africa are planting trees in areas that
could have been used for food production.
• These newly built forests will prevent erosion,
desertification, and best, create a better local
climate for poor farmers and help them increase
their food production.
• Positive effect on environment as well.
 Negatives
• Trees will take a while to grow
• Only 1 tree is planted for every 28 cut
 The Best Solution?

SOLUTION 2!
Tree planting will in future will offer quality wood from
sustainable forestry without depleting natural resources.
The harvesting of sustainable natural resources will
create jobs, income opportunities and economical
development as local supporting industries are created.
 WORLD FOOD PROBLEMS
Future prospective
Expanded cultivation of food crops
Adjustment in priorities
Increase production in agriculture
Improvement/expansion in irrigation system
Population control?
World food security
"SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS FOR FOOD
SECURITY AND NUTRITION"

Food security: To feed an estimated 870 million hungry people on the planet,
we need to increase production of basic staple foods by 60 percent.

Nutrition: Two billion worldwide lack micronutrients vital for good health.
Agriculture must become more nutrition-sensitive, with a stronger focus on
fruits, vegetables, and other nutrient-dense foods.

Food Systems: Since every aspect of our food systems has an effect on the final
availability and accessibility of diverse, nutritious foods, we must constantly
strive towards a healthier global food system.

Sustainability: By using resources more efficiently at every stage along the food
chain, we can increase the amount of healthy food available worldwide. Getting
the most food from every drop of water, plot of land, and speck of fertilizer saves
resources for the future.
India Food Banking Network
 Food banking is a system that
moves food from donors to the
people who need it and engages
all sectors of society in the effort.

 It is a non-profit flexible distribution

model that acquires donated/
purchased food and makes it
available to the hungry through the
network of institutional feeding
programs.

 These programs include school

feeding programs, charitable
hospitals, orphanages, the
destitute, beggars, homeless etc.

To know more about Indian Food Banking Network, please visit:

http://www.indiafoodbanking.org/
 My involvement!
Stop Hunger Now!
Stop Hunger Now launched its meal packaging program in
2005. The meals combine rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables
and a flavoring mix, including 21 essential vitamins and
minerals into small meal packets. Each meal costs only 25
cents. Has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly.
International.
 ‘a massacre of the world’s poor’
Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s
socialist president:
“The problem is not the
production of food …
it is the economic,
social and political
model of the world.
The capitalist model is
in crisis.”