World Hunger 3

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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

GNED 500-002

GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT

SOCIAL ACTION: FIGHT HUNGER

Athanasios Tom KokkiniasInstructor

Members

Fatuma HassanKhadija Abubakar

Maryelle Data

Qinghua Sun


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HUNGER

Definition

hunger

/hgr/ [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.


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WHO IS HUNGRY

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 Caribbean42 million in the Near East and North Africa


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CAUSES

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 peoplecannot afford to buy food

Poor agricultural infrastructure: roads, water, food storage,

Over-exploitation of environment: deforestation, overcropping

and overgrazing Harmful economic policies


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NATURE

Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms andlong periods of drought are on the increase -- withcalamitous consequences for food security in poor,

developing countries.

Drought is now the single mostcommon cause of food shortagesin the world.


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WAR

Since 1992, the proportion of short and long-term foodcrises that can be attributed to human causes has morethan doubled, rising from 15 percent to more than 35percent. All too often, these emergencies are triggered

by conflicts.

From Asia to Africa to Latin America,fighting displaces millions of peoplefrom their homes, leading to someof the world's worst hungeremergencies.


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POVERTY TRAP

The poverty-stricken do not have enough money to buyor produce enough food for themselves and theirfamilies. In turn, they tend to be weaker and cannot

produce enough to buy more food.

The poor are hungry and theirhunger traps them in poverty.


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AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE

Many developing countries lack key agriculturalinfrastructure, such as enough roads, warehouses andirrigation. The results are high transport costs, lack of

storage facilities and unreliable water supplies.

All conspire to limitagricultural yields

and access to food.


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OVER-EXPLOITATION OF ENVIRONMENT

Poor farming practices, deforestation, over cropping andovergrazing are exhausting the Earth's fertility andspreading the roots of hunger.

Increasingly, the world's fertilefarmland is under threat from

erosion, salination and

desertification.


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HUNGER FACTS

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 hungrychildren could eat lunch every day for 5 years


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CANADIAN HUNGER STATISTICS

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


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WHATWE CAN DO HERE AT HOME

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 povertyand hunger such as Canada without poverty

Donate to the food bank

Call politicians to dosomething about hunger

and poverty in Canada


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WHATWE CAN DO GLOBALLY

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


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RESOURCES

LINKS FOR THE IMAGES https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/AmericanPowerAmpCulturalH

egemony/African-AmericanMusic

https://reader009.{domain}/reader009/html5/0523/5b04aea508346/5b04aeab5237

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/

https://reader009.{domain}/reader009/html5/0523/5b04aea508346/5b04aeabeef8


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RESOURCES

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

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