The document discusses the relationship between food wastage and hunger. It defines food wastage and hunger and examines some of the key causes of hunger like poor crop yields, overfishing, and inefficient farming practices. The document also presents statistics showing that while 500 million people live in poverty and 15 million children die from hunger each year, an estimated $31 billion worth of food is wasted annually, which could feed 49 million people.

1. Food wastage vs Hunger Done By: John Lim Le Sheng 3A205 Evin Tay Teck Ek 3A225

2. Roadmap 1. Definitions food wastage hunger 3. How hunger and food wastage are related 2. Causes of hunger

7. Social Reasons Poor crop yield Overfishing Inefficient farming practices

8. Case study of Niger

9. What is being done? WFP (World Food Programme) Reached 113 million people in 80 countries WFP has 20 aircraft in the skies, 40 ships on the high seas and 5,000 trucks every day just carrying food school feeding program Reached 16 million people

10. What does hunger got to do with food wastage? As people waste their food, there are other people desperately trying to finding food. 500 million people live in absolute poverty Every year 15 million children die of hunger

11. The annual value of this lost food is estimated at around $31 billion 49 million people could have been fed by those lost resources $31 billion 49 million people

12. $13 billion

14. Websites http://www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.asp http://www.globalissues.org/article/7/causes-of-hunger-are-related-to-poverty http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm