World Hunger – UN
Read the United Nations Report into World Hunger and answer the following questions. The answer are to be posted onto your Blogsite.
a. How many people in the world are estimated by the United Nations World Food Programme to be chronically hungry?
830 million are estimated to be chronically hungry.
b. Why is this important?
It is important as these people are close to death and they need to be helped as they have little chance of getting out of poverty so they can’t buy food.
c. What kind of report did the agency release?
A map showing “hot spots” – where the poverty and hunger is at its worst.
d. Why does Ms. Catherine Bertini claim people have trouble getting out of poverty and hunger?
As the combination of poverty and disaster causes people to have less chance to build resources to end their hunger.
e. What is the World Food Programme’s definition of hunger?
As a condition in which people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active healthy lifestyles.
g. What events have added to the problem of world hunger in the past few years?
Drought has mainly made hunger a lot worse as of the less food available.
h. What disasters have hurt the poorest countries?
Man-made and natural emergencies. In Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Tajikistan it has hit the worst.
i. Where are the largest numbers of poor and hungry people living?
In developing countries is where most of them live.
j. Where have conditions improved over the past few years? Where have they worsened?
They have improved in Bosnia, Botswana. They have deteriorated in Afghanistan.
k. How many poor people did the World Food Programme feed in the year 2000?
They helped feed 16 million people in the year 200.
l. What does Ms. Bertini say countries need in order to alleviate hunger?
They need food, water drilling and purification equipment, also better sanitation and agricultural systems.
Further Questions for Discussion:
–What is hunger?
When people can’t afford food to provide for themselves.
–What do you think it would be like to live with chronic hunger?
It would be very difficult to live with and a hard place to live at.
–Why do people care about hunger in parts of the world that are far from them?
As everyone is a human being and everyone is equal so everyone should help each other.
–Whose responsibility is the care of the chronically undernourished?
Everyones as the whole world should help.
–How does chronic hunger affect a child?
They can’t develop properly without being fed properly.
