FN Lecture 15

Limited or uncertain access to food of sufficient quality or quantity to sustain a healthy lifestyle

Reliable access to enough nutritious food to sustain a healthy active life style

Lack of basic food needed to provide energy and nutrients
Causes PEM, IDA, IDD and severe mineral/vitamin deficiencies

Hunger occurring when an area of the world lacks enough total food to feed its people

Widespread and extreme scarcity of food in an area that causes starvation and death in a large portion of the population
Most visible form on hunger
Causes:
Drought
Floods
Pests
Political unrest
Racial discrimination
Religious hatred

Food exists in an area but some people cannot obtain it due to various reasons

Wasteful of chemicals and fertilizers
Wasted fuel for transportation
More rotting food creates more methane

Affects agriculture
Reduces land productivity

Destroyed rain forests add to land loss

Leaves salty deposits in the soil

Overused for raising animals for meat supplies

Declining yield of fish from oceans due to overfishing and pollution

Affects agriculture in every nation
Deforestation dramatically adds to land loss
Without the forest to hold the soil in place, it washes off the rocks beneath
Drastically reduces the lands productivity

Do not die due to starvation, but due to dehyrdation/diarrhea

Saves 1M kids
1 cup of boiled water + 2 tsp sugar + pinch of salt

Protein energy malnutrition

Iodine deficiency disorders

Commitment to reduce the number of undernourished people in half by 2015
1. The right to food
2. The reduction of poverty
3. Promotion of access to safe and nutritious food
4. Food safety
5. Tradition food acquisition methods of Aboriginal communities
6. Food production
7. Environmentally sustainable practices
8. Fair trade
9. Peace is a precursor to food security
10. A monitoring system for food insecurity

Eat low on the food chain
Select foods with less packaging
Use reusable grocery bags

Use pressure cookers and microwave ovens
Do no use disposable utensils
Avoid using wrapping stuff
Use reusable towels and tupperware