3. Official Name: Republique de Mali
Capital City: Bamako (pop. 1 million)
Government Type: Republic
Geographical Location: Western Africa, southwest of
Algeria
Climate: Semitropical in the south; Arid in the north
Population: 14.5 million (approx. as of June 2013)
Agricultural Products: Cotton, millet, rice, corn,
vegetables, peanuts, cattle, sheep, goats
GDP per capital: $1084/ year
4. Official Name: Republique du Tchad
Capital City: N’Djamena
Government Type: Presidential Republic
Geographical Location: Central Africa, South of Libya
Climate: Tropical in Southern Area; Arid in Northern
Area
Population: 10 million (approx. as of July 2012)
Agricultural Products: Cotton, sorghum, millet,
peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca), cattle,
camels
GDP per capital: $2000/ year
5. Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of
Ethiopia
Capital City: Addis Ababa
Government Type: Federal Republic
Geographical Location: Eastern Africa, West of
Somalia
Climate: Tropical monsoon with wide topographic-
induced variation
Population: 91 million (approx. as of July 2012)
Agricultural Products: Cereals. Pulses, coffee, oilseed,
cotton, sugarcane, potatoes, khat, cut flowers, hides,
cattle, fish
GDP per capital: $1200/ year
6. Sub-Saharan Africa European Union
Income per year and person $2,041 (€1540) $27,555 (€20794)
Income per day and person $5.6 (€4.23) $75.5 (€56.98)
Agri-value added per year and
person
$318 (€240) $17,781 (€13,418)
Share of population with less
than $2
73 per cent -
Share of population with less
than $1.25
51 per cent -
Share of income spent on food 55 to 70 per cent (estimation) 12 per cent
Comparison of income, agricultural value added, extreme poverty and income spent on food in Sub-Saharan Africa and the
European Union
Average USD-Euro exchange rate (US-Dollar ($)/Euro (€)) in 2010: 1,325129423 (Source: www.OANDA.com)
7. “In summer 2011, a severe hunger crisis struck the Sahel region
of Africa. Several million Africans in Chad, Mali and
Ethiopia were dependent on foreign food aid. Persistent
drought, sharply increasing prices for staple food and
regional conflicts had caused a collapse of regional food
supply.” - News Reporter from the UN
9. The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world's
largest humanitarian agency. In 2012, WFP fed more
than 97.2 million people in 80 countries and
allowed 24.7 million children to take part in
school feeding initiatives.
10.
11. BEFORE AFTER
•The 2011 government nutrition survey
(called a SMART) reported 150,000
acutely malnourished children, and
MSF estimates that aid agencies and the
government cared for 30,000 of them.
•Malnutrition in Chad is responsible for
more than half of under-five deaths due
to lack of preventive and primary health
care, including maternal and child
health care, cyclical droughts as well as
difficult access to food and safe
drinking water
•More than 330,000 children were given
appropriate food aid and provided
health care necessities, reducing rate of
malnourishment by 10% in Mali
•Chad has recently benefited from the
continuing project of the UN which
includes not only immediate food aid to
those who are affected, but also free
health care services to children and
pregnant women
12. BEFORE AFTER
•National data from 1999-2000 found
that wasting (acute malnutrition) and
stunting (chronic malnutrition) in
children aged six to fifty-nine months
were 9.6 and 56.7 percent, respectively
in Ethiopia
•WFP’s school meals programme has
benefitted millions of school children
across Ethiopia over the last 19 years
and currently serves some 650,000
students in 1,800 schools in different
parts of the country
13. Providing nutritious food to women when they are
pregnant or breast-feeding – and to children under
the age of two – ensures children can develop healthy
minds and bodies.
Providing emergency food rations after a man-made
or natural disaster can save thousands of lives. It can
also safeguard the physical and mental development
of children by preventing malnutrition.
Providing training and support to smallholder
farmers and helping them connect better to markets
allows communities to develop more robust food
production systems.
14. Providing free meals for children in school means
they get the food they need to concentrate on
their lessons. It also means they stay in school,
which will help them escape poverty and hunger.
When there is food in the markets, but poor
people simply can’t afford it, providing food
vouchers help ensure vulnerable families get the
food they need. They also help the local economy.
15.
16. Opportunity cost of expenditure for food aid
is the other welfare projects used for other
countries aside from Africa
Food supply goes down as much people are
now dependent on food aid rather than
owning their own property and going into
the agricultural business
Rise of Fuel Costs = Reduced amount of
food aid = People are left hungry
17. “We are for food aid because eradicating food aid cannot
be an option since it provides immediate assistance for
those countries who are affected by uncontrollable
disasters and political unresolved issues. However it’s
drawbacks include hindrance to economic growth since
there is no labour productivity therefore no
contribution to the food supply.”
