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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
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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/
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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