Food wastage vs Hunger

Done By: John Lim Le Sheng 3A205Evin Tay Teck Ek 3A225

Roadmap

1. Definitions• food wastage•hunger

3. How hunger and food wastage are related2. Causes of hunger

Social Reasons

Poor crop yield

OverfishingInefficient farming practices

Case study of Niger

What is being done?

• WFP (World Food Programme)– Reached 113 million people in 80 countries– WFP has 20 aircraft in the skies, 40 ships on the

high seas and 5,000 trucks every day just carrying food

– school feeding program• Reached 16 million people

What does hunger got to do with food wastage?

• As people waste their food, there are other people desperately trying to finding food.– 500 million people live in absolute poverty– Every year 15 million children die of hunger

• The annual value of this lost food is estimated at around $31 billion

• 49 million people could have been fed by those lost resources

$31 billion

49 million people

$13 billion

Websites

• http://www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.asp

• http://www.globalissues.org/article/7/causes-of-hunger-are-related-to-poverty

• http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm