GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT

SOCIAL ACTION: FIGHT HUNGER

Athanasios Tom Kokkinias

Instructor

Members
Fatuma Hassan
Khadija Abubakar
Maryelle Data
Qinghua Sun
Definition
hun·ger
/ˈhʌŋgər/ [huhng-ger]

–noun
1. a compelling need or desire for food.
2. the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of
food: to collapse from hunger.
3. a shortage of food; famine.
 Most of the world’s hungry live in developing countries.
According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
statistics, there are 925 million hungry people in the world and 98
percent of them are in developing countries.  They are distributed
like this:

 578 million in Asia and the Pacific

265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
42 million in the Near East and North Africa
 Nature: earthquake, floods, drought
 War: displaced people, food used as a weapon, farm and wells
mined
 Poverty Trap: poor farmer cannot afford seeds and poor
people cannot afford to buy food
 Poor agricultural infrastructure: roads, water, food storage,
 Over-exploitation of environment: deforestation, overcropping
and overgrazing
 Harmful economic policies
Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long
periods of drought are on the increase -- with calamitous
consequences for food security in poor, developing
countries.
 Drought is now the single most
common cause of food shortages
in the world.
Since 1992, the proportion of short and long-term food
crises that can be attributed to human causes has more than
doubled, rising from 15 percent to more than 35 percent.
All too often, these emergencies are triggered by conflicts.
 From Asia to Africa to Latin America,
fighting displaces millions of people
from their homes, leading to some
of the world's worst hunger
emergencies.
 
 
The poverty-stricken do not have enough money to buy or
produce enough food for themselves and their families. In
turn, they tend to be weaker and cannot produce enough to
buy more food.
Thepoor are hungry and their
hunger traps them in poverty.
 Many developing countries lack key agricultural
infrastructure, such as enough roads, warehouses and
irrigation. The results are high transport costs, lack of
storage facilities and unreliable water supplies. 
All
conspire to limit
agricultural yields
and access to food.
Poor farming practices, deforestation, over cropping and
overgrazing are exhausting the Earth's fertility and
spreading the roots of hunger.

 Increasingly, the world's fertile

farmland is under threat from
erosion, salination and
desertification.
 
 Every year 15 million children die of hunger
 Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
 To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements
would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the
United States and the European Union spend on perfume
each year.
 For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry
children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
 More than 40%of people in low- or lower middle income
households reported food insecurity.
 Even in middle-income households, almost 25%
reported at least one aspect of the problem.
 About 18% of people food aged 12 to 44 had
experienced food insecurity.
 18% increase in Food Bank use in 2009
 87% people who use food bank are in rented
accommodation
 Create awareness of this important issue through
education and fundraising by setting up a booths in
Ashtonbee campus. Money raised goes to Foodbank.
 Volunteer in organizations that work to reduce poverty

and hunger such as Canada without poverty

 Donate to the food bank

 Call politicians to do

something about hunger

and poverty in Canada
 Buy products that promote fair trade
 Educate ourselves on global issues and how it impacts
hunger and poverty example makehungerhistory.org
campaign
 Donate to advocacy organizations
LINKS FOR THE IMAGES
 https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/AmericanPowerAmpCulturalHege
mony/African-AmericanMusic
 http://www.unioncpchurch.com/images/womensministry/hungry.jpg
 http://www.gaatlargeinc.com/images/Feeding%20The%20Hungry.jpg
 http://www.ourplanet.org.uk/drought-climate-change.asp
 http://trendsupdates.com/70-percent-more-food-needed-by-2050-for-projected-9-1-
billion-world-population/
 http://ka-bayan-ko.blogspot.com/2010/07/education-and-poverty-in-philippines.html
 http://www.canonbiechurch.org.uk/fairtrade.php
 http://gizmodo.com/5108282/hackers-help-loggers-smuggle-17-million-cubic-meters-of-
wood-out-of-brazil
 http://www.aambis.com/
 http://farmlandgrab.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/infrastructure.jpg
FACTS LINKS

 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hunger
 http://www.makehungerhistory.org/content/view/53
 http://www.cwp-csp.ca
 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies http://www.cafb-
acba.ca/documents/HungerCount2009NOV16.pdf
 http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
 http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes
 http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes
 http://www.worldhunger.org/harmfuleconomicsystems.htm