Food+Scarcity-+Hannah+Rastrick

A centuries-old debate has recently heated up: just how close are we to the earth's limits?


 * Food Scarcity (one side):**

Behind the headlines, the television images, and superficial clichés, we can learn to see that hunger is real; scarcity is not

The world today produces enough grain alone to provide every human being on the planet with 3,500 calories a day

Only 50 years ago, China pundits predicted that famine-ridden nation could never feed its population. Today more than twice as many people eat-and fairly adequately-on only one-fourth the cropland per person used in the United States

Question: **A** **t our current food production rate, growth rate, and population growth rate, how long will we be able to support our nutritional needs?**

Notes: ->population growth rate- 1.13 ->3,500 calories per person in United States of America, Portugal, France, Turkey etc. ->3,000 to 3,500 calories per person in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Kazakhstan etc ->Many factors govern the pattern of food-intake. -> In countries, where maximum population falls into the below poverty line (BPL) category, the per capita food intake is also less ->T he developed countries enjoy a higher standard of living. So there, the average food intake per person is high. ->With a population of about 6 billion, food consumption has become a fast rising concern -> As to statistics by World Bank, population in the world is growing by more than 200,000 people -> Food consumption can be defined as the amount of food **available** for human consumption -> Sometimes the actual food consumption is lower than to quantity of food available depending upon wastage and losses of food -> The per capita food consumption over the world simply means the total food consumption divided by total population http://www.mapsofworld.com/thematic-maps/world-food-consumption-map.htm http://www.gapminder.org https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2002.html http://www.veganideal.com/content/veganism-food-and-global-economy http://www.alfredhartemink.nl/world_food.htm http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html http://www.naturalnews.com/026453_drought_food_food_production.html http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/future/distribution.htm
 * Sites:**

__New__ Question: **If food scarcity is proven not to exist, why are people suffering from lack of nutrition?**

1- Hunger Facts 2- Food Scarcity Does Not Exist 3- Why People Aren't Getting Food
 * 3 Part Video:**

->Need 2000 calories a day ->1.02 billion people across the world are hungry ->Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds -> Hunger is the most extreme form of poverty -> Today our world is home to 6.7 billion people -> Pregnant women, new mothers who breastfeed infants, and children are among the most at risk of undernourishment ->Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia= two regions that also suffer from the highest rates of hunger and malnutrition ->Every 3 seconds someone dies of hunger ->One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night -> There is enough food produced by the USA alone to feed everyone in the world ->1/4 of the food produced by the US is wasted -> food given as aid to hunger stricken areas often occurs, but this is only shortime... what about tomorrow?
 * 1st Part of Video: Hunger Facts:**
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 * 2nd Part of Video: Food Scarcity Does Not Exist:**

-> Our current food production could feed 7 billion people - compare that to the 6 billion people who live on the Earth. -> It is evident that from the number of deaths and suffering in the world, hunger still persists. -> Hunger is not related to a shortfall in food production, but the ability to pay for it

3rd Part of Video:** __5 packages of rice:__ North American- South American- European- Asian- African- -> show where the food is produced -> show where the food ends up

__The United States:__ -part of the high-income group of nations -consists of about 65 countries with a combined population of about 1 billion -less than one sixth of the world’s population
 * Stats for Part 3:**