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Introduction• The world grows more than
enough food to feed everyone, yet– More people are hungry today than
ever before– an estimated one billion, – one in five persons worldwide
• One of every three children is chronically malnourished– too hungry to lead an active, healthy
life
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Introduction• One-third of the grain
grown in the world – and one-half of the fish
caught – are fed to animals in rich
countries• U.S. daily per person
calorie supply is 3,671– almost twice that of
Sudan’s: 1,974• fewer calories than needed
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Introduction• Sub-Saharan Africa
– 1 in 3 people are malnourished
– half live on less than $1 a day
– 30 million people required emergency food aid (2005 )
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• The roots of hunger lie in– Poverty, war, and the unequal
distribution of resources,– Not in Overpopulation. – Many well-fed countries have
more people than hungry ones.
• Holland – a high-income country– has over 1,000 people per
square mile• Mozambique
– one of the world’s lowest-income countries
– has only 48 people per square mile
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• The roots of hunger lie in – poverty, war, – unequal distribution of
resources– Not in Natural Disasters.
• Five years of drought in California– resulted in no direct loss of
human life. • Five years of drought in
Ethiopia– over a million people died
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Ethiopia 1983
Oxfam Hunger Banquet• Everyone on earth has the
same basic needs• only our circumstances
differ– where we live and the culture we
are born into
• Some are born into relative prosperity and security – While millions are born into
poverty• by no choice of their own
The High Income Group• If you ended up in the
high-income group– You represent the 15 percent of
the world’s population • fortunate enough to afford
a nutritious daily diet
• You live primarily in countries like – the United States, Australia,
France, Switzerland, – most countries in Western
Europe
Relative World Wealth
The High Income Group• As members of this group,
you share the following characteristics:– Your average income is over
$9,076.– The leading cause of death
among you is heart disease and diabetes
• directly related to your over-consumption of fatty foods
– particularly red meat
The High Income Group– Health care is more readily
available to you. – In the U.S. there is one doctor to
every 470 people• compared with one doctor per
7,140 people in Haiti– In general, your children are
healthy and your infant mortality rate is low
– Though you are well-off, millions of your fellow citizens live below the poverty line.
• Most of them are women and children who lack access to adequate services.
Haiti
The High Income Group• You could be:
– Jennifer, an attorney• who lives in an affluent
suburb of Boston – with her husband, an
accountant, and two children.
– Shinji, a well-traveled Japanese engineer• who lives in a
comfortable one-bedroom apartment in Tokyo
The Middle Income Group• Those in the middle-
income group represent roughly 25% of the world’s population.
• There are more countries in this group than in the high-income group– countries like Bolivia, the
Philippines, Turkey, Costa Rica, and Iran
The Middle Income Group• What are your common characteristics?
– Your average income ranges from $912-9,095.
– Your children are six times more likely to die of hunger and related diseases than if they lived in a high-income country
– You must use 35% of your income to feed yourself, compared with the 15% people in high-income countries spend
– Your economies are crippled by foreign debt. Debt payments can consume half of your governments’ earnings
The Middle Income Group• You could be:
– Simcha, a man in his thirties, who operates a postcard stall in the ancient city of Jerusalem to feed his four children
– Lucia, a schoolteacher in Prague, in the Czech Republic
• who takes in sewing to earn extra income to support her aging parents and her children
The Low Income Group• You represent the majority
of the world’s population. • You live in countries
where the average income is less than $912 a year.
• Somalia, Honduras, India, and Vietnam are among the countries in this group
The Low Income Group• As a member of this group, you
share these characteristics:– You are chronically
malnourished and eat only 2,205 calories a day
• less than the amount needed to lead a healthy, hard-working life
– You cannot afford to own or buy land
• even land farmed for centuries by your ancestors
The Low Income Group– You may work on a hacienda or large
plantation • that produces crops such as bananas, sugar,
and coffee • for export to high-and middle-income
countries• yet you and your family don’t get enough
to eat.– The combined debt owed by all of your
governments to wealthy nations totals $1.3 trillion
• more than $200 per person• and continues to rise inexorably.
– Unemployment and hardship in the rural areas is driving you into cities
• where you face even greater hardships
The Low Income Group• You could be:
– Farida, who lives in India where the forests have nearly disappeared.
• Her people have become nomads, wandering in search of the water needed for sustenance.
– Pierre, a farmer in Haiti who rents a hillside plot for his landlord.
• In the dry season when nothing will grow, he will make charcoal to sell for the price of a few day’s food
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