An+Insight+on,++Food+Scarcity+Amanda+Cira


 * Overall Question: **

Are we able to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?


 * (1) An Insight on, “Food Distribution” Amanda Cira **


 * Information Covered… **

· The limits to growth. · The high price of a meat-based diet. · The dehydration of the planet. · What do scientists say?

Stewart, Holly. (1996, September). //Facing food scarcity//. Retrieved from http://www.earthsave.ca/articles/enviro/limits.html
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 * Interesting Quotations: **

· “As increasing global demands put pressure on declining grain stocks, countries the world around are in for a wake-up call.” · "Measured in days of global consumption, the world's estimated carryover stocks of grain for 1996 had fallen to 49 days" - the lowest level ever.

· “As disposable incomes rise sharply across the developing world, a fast-growing middle class from Seoul to Sao Paulo is buying more beef, poultry, and pork. Since 1950, world meat consumption has leaped four-fold, from 44 million tons to 184 million tons. Consumption per person has nearly doubled from 17 kilograms in 1950 to 33 kilograms in 1994.”

· “In China alone, the demand for pork is creating a soaring population of hogs"510 million by the year 2000, from 307 million a decade ago.” · Even as population grows at a record pace, those with low incomes, who account for most of humanity and who typically depend on a starchy staple such as rice for 70% or more of their calories, see prestige in consuming more livestock products. · If groundwater levels are falling consistently around the world, it becomes a question of some urgency whether the difference can be made up with surface water. The planet's great rivers, after all, are perpetually renewing. Yet here, too, there are signs of trouble.


 * Notes: **

· We are diminishing the earth’s chances to sustain all life in the future. · Unseasonably cold, wet weather in some countries, and crop-withering heat waves in others, have lowered grain harvests in such major grain-producing countries as Canada, the U.S., parts of Europe and Russia. · Recent years reproduction has decreased here has been no growth in global grain production at all, while population has grown by some 440 million people, the equivalent of 40 New York Cities. · Decades, grain stocks have remained more or less adequate; as population has surged, so has food production. Boosted by new crop varieties, fertilizers, and irrigation, yields improved dramatically. · It is expensive to live on a meat-based diet and many Ontarians relay on livestock as the main source of their calorie intake. · Due to dehydrations major food-producing countries supply of products are very low. · Technological advances have steadily enhanced our capacity to raise living standards. They not only helped boost food production, they also increased our access to sources of water, energy, timber, and minerals.


 * (2) An Insight on, “Food Distribution” Amanda Cira **
 * Information Covered… **

· Myths and the reality of food scarcity
 * The Myth - ** Scarcity
 * The Reality - ** There is enough food?

//Myth of food scarcity//. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Global_Secrets_Lies/Myth_FoodScarcity.html
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** None
 * Interesting Quotations:

** Myth: **
==== · With food-producing resources in so much of the world stretched to the limit, there's simply not enough food to go around. Unfortunately, some people will just have to go hungry. We must put all our efforts into boosting agricultural production in order to minimize hunger. ====


 * Fact: **


 * (3) Notes on Monday April 12th, 2010**


 * Factory Food:**

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The U.S.A is looking for cheap and fast alternatives to traditional meals. 31% of American’s eat more packaged food then fresh food.

"Processed foods contain large amounts of fat, salt and sugar, and Americans have become addicted to them."


 * Video Clip:**


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 * Presentation Plan:**

Explanation of food scarcity

The planet is deteriorating and becoming a place where life will not be able to survive.


 * Question:** How are we going to feed a growing world without destroying the planet?

How are we able to conserve resources so that they are there for future generations?

Comparing different pantries to see where they get their food produce from and the amount that they get.

Seeing how we are using our resources by looking at our eco foot-print’s.

By learning from what we are doing already we can insure that we are making good use of our resources for the future.

Questions


 * //__ Other Notes: __//**

It is a global issue! It is happening everywhere, especially in developing countries and contients.
 * What is it? ** It mostly arises from people having unlimited wants while there are and always will be limited resources. Food shortages in a population are caused either by a lack of food or by having difficulties moving goods from one country to another.
 * Where is this happening? **

Angela Mwaniki says, “Achieving food security in its totality continues to be a challenge not only for the developing nations, but also for the developed world.”

· Ontario’s countryside is made up of some of the best farmland in Canada all though most of the highest quality agricultural lands are located near or have been replaced by the more populous areas. · Urban expansions, sprawl and severances have led to the loss of these valuable resources. · The protection of agricultural land is very important for ensuring future food production potential. A healthy agricultural industry ensures food production and food security; as well as preserves a valuable resource for future generation as well it supports long-term health of many rural communities that are dependent on agriculture. · More severe serious cases of food scarcity is occurring in developing countries · Ethiopia in 1973 and mid-1980s · Sudan in the late-1970s and again in 1990 and 1998. Uganda was, in terms of mortality rates, one of the worst in history. · 21% of the population died, including 60% of the infants. Since Uganda has a population of 31, 656, 865, 6, 647, 941.65 people died due to this epidemic. This amount of people makes up more then half of the population of Ontario. · Above countries able are one of the 53 individual countries that make up the second largest continent in the world Africa. · Located south of Europe and between the Alantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. Since Africa has high temperatures and dessert like terrain it is not shocking that African famines have become more frequent as well as being more widespread and more severe. · Many African countries are not self-sufficient in food production, as they rely on income from cash crops to import food. · Numerous factors make up the food security situation in Africa doubtful because of political instability, armed conflict and civil war. This has lead to the corruption and negligence of handling food supplies, and trade policies that harm African agriculture. · The sad reality of the last decade and a half is that Africa has not made progress. It fact, it has moved backwards not forwards. From 1981 till 2001, the number of Africans living in poverty doubled to 314 million from 164 million.
 * Food scarcity in the developed Ontario;**

Shocking fact… · Shocking Fact! 20,000 to 24,000 people die every day from malnutrition (hunger), or hunger-related causes. This equates to 7,300,00 to 8,760,000 per year.

Theory #1 is Mathus theory he believed that food that there would not be enough food to allow life to survive on earth because the population I overpowering food supply.

Theory #2 is Boserup’s theory she states, “ In times of pressure people will find ways to increase the production of food by increasing workforce, machinery, fertilizers, etc.” So she is basically saying that if we make moderate changes in the way we produce food life will be able to survive on earth for generations to come.

"Think of food security as this giant iceberg moving along, and we're in danger of running into and sinking the human race," said Nelson.
 * //__ Bibliography: __//**

// Scarcity definition //. (n.d.). Retrieved from []

// How many People die annually from malnutrition? // . (n.d.). Retrieved from [] // Lot creation in prime agricultural areas //. (n.d.). Retrieved from [] // Food scarcity in africa //. (n.d.). Retrieved from [|http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?start=&reqstyleid=2&mode=form&reqsrcid=APAWebPage&more=&nameCnt=1#]

Kumar, Sandhya. (2010, April 22). //Climate change and food security//. Retrieved from [] // Best Foot forward //. (n.d.). Retrieved from [] Mwaniki, Angela. (2003). //Food security//. Retrieved from []

Black RE, Morris SS, Bryce J. "Where and why are 10 million children dying every year?" //Lancet//. 2003 Jun 28;361(9376):2226-34.
 * // All of the following sources were already created on the World Hunger Facts 2009 website… //**

Black, Robert E, Lindsay H Allen, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Laura E Caulfield, Mercedes de Onis, Majid Ezzati, Colin Mathers, Juan Rivera, for the Maternal and Child Undernutrition Study Group [|Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences]. (Article access may require registration) //The Lancet// Vol. 371, Issue 9608, 19 January 2008, 243-260.

Jennifer Bryce, Cynthia Boschi-Pinto, Kenji Shibuya, Robert E. Black, and the WHO Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group. 2005. "[|WHO estimates of the causes of death in children]." //Lancet// ; 365: 1147–52.

Caulfield LE, de Onis M, Blössner M, Black RE. [|Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles]. //American Journal of Clinical Nutrition// 2004; 80: 193–98.

Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion. June 2004. "[|How have the world’s poorest fared since the early 1980s?]" World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3341 Washington: World Bank.

de Onis, Mercedes, Edward A. Frongillo and Monika Blossner. 2000. "[|I][|s malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980]." //Bulletin of the World Health Organization// 2000, 78: 1222–1233. Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Program. 2002 "[|Reducing Poverty and Hunger, the Critical Role of Financing for Food, Agriculture, and Rural Development]."

Food and Agriculture Organization. 2006. [|State of World Food Insecurity 2006]

Food and Agriculture Organization. 2009. [|State of World Food Insecurity 2009]

Oxford University Press. 1971. //Oxford English Dictionary.// Definition for malnutrition. Pelletier DL, Frongillo EA Jr, Schroeder D, Habicht JP. [|The effects of malnutrition on child mortality in developing countries]. // Bulletin of the World Health Organization // 1995; ** 73: ** 443–48.

Svedberg, Peter. 2000. __ Poverty and Undernutrition __ p. 298.

United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. 2007. //[|Statistical Yearbook 2006]// "[|Main Findings]"

UNHCR 2008 //Global Report 2008// "The Year in Review" []

World Bank. [|Understanding Poverty website] Accessed February 3, 2008


 * // All of the following sources were already created on the wikipedia page on Mathus… //**




 * //All of the following sources were already created on the wikipedia page on Boserup…//**

All of the pictures used in my presentation I got from google images. www.google.com