Oversupply vs. Hunger
The unfair division of food over
the world
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Facts
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More than 850 millions of people don´t have
enough to eat.
Every day 25 000 people die of hunger and
poverty.
Every six seconds a child younger than five dies
from underfeeding.
The food production of all countrys together
would be enough to feed all the people round
the world.
Definition of Hunger
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Hunger is a signal of the body. It tells the
person to eat something.
Food provides the energy and the nutrient
we need. A permanent deficit of food and
nutrient derogates the human development
and makes even the simplest activities
impossible. Such a deficit is life-threatening.
Forms of Hunger
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Famines
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Undernutrition
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Acute emergency situation
Too less food for a long space of time
Malnutition
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Enouth food, but without enough proteins,
vitamins or minerals
Famines
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When we see pictures of hunger in the media
they are mostly about famines.
The pictures show totally weak humans who
havn´t had anything because there is no food
around.
In fact less than 10% of all starving people
are in such a situation.
Undernutrition
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Much more often is the long lasting
untersupply with food. Undernutritioned
people don´t get enough colories for a
normal life over many months.
The body of this people tries to compansate
the lack of food by turning down the physical
and psychic abilities.
Hunger also weakens the immune system
and every innocent disease can be deathly.
Malnutrition
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Even when there´s enough food around a
lack of vitamins and minarals can occur. This
is called malnutrition.
It is often the result of a one-sided nutrition
and often occur in poor regions where the
people aren´t able to buy differend kinds of
food.
It causes many diseases and weakens the
immune system.
Where does hunger occur?
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Hunger is unequally distributed over the
world. Most of the starving live in Asia,
followed by Africa.
Hunger is a problem in many Latin American
and east european countrys too.
Even in rich countrys live people who don´t
have enough to eat. In the US for example
lived 2008 10,8 millions of people who
hadn´d enough food.
Where does hunger occur?
Who is affected?
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Especially affected of hunger are people who
live agrarian areas. 50% of the starving are
farmers themselves.
Another 20 % of the starving are farmworkers without own land. They are too poor
to buy food.
So most of the starving people live just where
the food is produced!
Reasons for Hunger
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Natural Reasons
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Drought
Flooding
War
Poverty
Damages of the environment
There needn´t be hunger
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The food which is produced in the world,
would be enough for everyone.
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The problem is the unfair distribution.
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