Hungry

Paula De ScheemaekerNatàlia Sellés

OBJECTIVES

• Really worrying!

16.000 children in the world die everyday because of hunger. One child / 5 seconds

• Find the causes.

• Learn more about hunger.

What is mundial hunger?

• Mundial hunger is one of the biggest problems of our world today.

• The people who suffer it, don’t have enough food to eat.

• They have less than 1.9 kcal.

Affected people: 

• 954.000.000 people in the world are underfed.

• 820.000.000 of these people are in developing countries. 

Poor countries

• The most part is in Asia and the Pacific.

• Then, Sub-Saharian Africa,

Latin America and the Caribbean,

Near Est and North Africa

• Finally there are poverty too in the developed countries.  

Natural causes

• Very cold or very hot areas:

more problems to obtain food.

• The big and general problem is:

the land is not being used efficiently enough.

Economic causes

• Most of food is produced in developed nations.

• Huge expenses in packaging, transporting, and distributing this food.

• This countries are usually poor.

Sociocultural causes

• Underlying cultural beliefs which prevent progress, as religion.

• South Asia: - Women are responsible for all the actions

required to end hunger. - Through laws, custom and tradition, women are

denied the resources and the freedom of action to carry on these responsibilities.

• Restricted by culture.  

Sufficient food for all the people? 

• There is food in the world for everyone.

• Hungry people trapped in poverty.

1) Not enough money to buy food to themselves.

2) they become ill.

3) they work badly.

4) more poorer and hungrier.  

Consequences – healthy • AIDS (Sida): kills 2 million people a year (1 person / 17 s).

Principal place: AFRICA.

• Pneumonia: kills 2 million children a year (poor countries). Principal problem: highly contagious.

• Diarrheal and cholera: kill 1.6 million people a year. Principal causes: unclean water, unsafe sanitation, and poor

hygiene.

• Tuberculosis:  kills 1.5 million people a year. Principal problem: contagious and spreads through the air.

• Malaria: kills 1 million people a year. Principal cause and place: mosquitoes, AFRICA.

Past, present and... future? 

• Past: Major hunger problems. Millions of people dead or suffering from

the effects of hunger.

• Future: The problem of world hunger can be

solved. But we have to act, because it will be

increased.

Measures to solve it 

• “food for work” programs where the adults are paid with food to build schools, make roads...

“food for education” children are provided with food when they attend school. 

• Reduce or eliminate the transportation costs. Food produced closer costs are lower.

• Companies need to realize that they must invest more as well.

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