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This presentation describes the function of the World Food Programme, the world's largest aid organisation and part of the United Nations, how it provides food aid to the malnourished and what problems it encounters along the way using Haiti as a case study, specifically following the 2004 Haitian rebellion and the 2004-2008 hurricanes that struck the island.
A lecture in Quantitative Sustainability
It is often claimed that agricultural productivity needs to be increased in order to feed a growing world population. Food security depends on several factors besides the productivity, including waste/efficiency, energy crops, meat consumption, and global justice and equity. This lecture explores the issue of food security in its many dimensions and teaches how to use a high-level systems approach in sustainability science.
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With unemployment reaching record levels, the demand for food from food banks have also reached new highs. The report gives a detailed overview of Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States and the challenges facing food banks at a time when its needed the most.
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Event organized by IFPRI, FAO, and Community for Zero Hunger "The Zero Hunger Challenge - Achieving the Right to Food for All" presentation by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, FAO
on January 30, 2014
http://www.ifpri.org/event/zero-hunger-challenge
In our opinion, poverty is the main reason for hunger, weather is it poverty of an individual or of a whole nation. In developing countries, governments can’t afford to support those in need for food and water and in developed countries there are some individuals who can’t afford their need due to lack of education which caused them to be unable to look for a source of income.
Natural disasters can cause poverty too. Governments should be able to provide shelter and food for those people who their houses and belongings were destroyed by natural disasters.
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Recently, the Global Nutrition Report (2014-16) describes a new norm of malnutrition in Asian emerging markets: obesity and non-communicable diseases are on the rise, while a substantial proportion of people still suffer from undernutrition. People living in cities now outnumber those living in rural areas and research suggests a convergence in urban and rural consumer demand for packaged or processed foods within low- and middle-income Asian countries. Both how economics favors the production of cheap, energy-dense but nutrient-poor foods and their growing contributions to modern diets in low- and medium-income populations are important factors in the growing double-burden of malnutrition and disease. All sectors involved in the food and nutrition value-chain need to work together to achieve the research-driven incremental improvements and disruptive innovations that shift the factors of food production and consumption towards improved nutritional and health-related outcomes.
With unemployment reaching record levels, the demand for food from food banks have also reached new highs. The report gives a detailed overview of Feeding America, the largest hunger relief organization in the United States and the challenges facing food banks at a time when its needed the most.
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SPECIAL EVENT
Washington, DC Launch--2018 Global Report on Food Crises: From Humanitarian to Developmental Responses
Co-Organized by IFPRI and Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
APR 27, 2018 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EDT
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3. food security is …
“when all people, at all times, have
access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food to meet their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life”
4. food security is …
“when all people, at all times, have
access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food to meet their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life”
5. World Food Summit Target:
To halve the number of undernourished
people by no later than 2015
That means reducing the number to 412
million
6. Target 1. Between 1990
and 2015 halve the
proportion of people
whose income is less
than $1 a day
Target 2. Between
1990 and 2015,
halve the
proportion of
people who suffer
from hunger
Millennium
Development
Goal No. 1
7. A few questions
1. What is the world’s population?
2. What is the percentage of the world’s
population that are undernourished
now?
8. Comparison MDG/WFS
MDG (2000)
• Halve the
proportion by
2015
• = 585 million
(10 per cent)
WFS (1996)
• Halve the
number of
undernourished
in 1992 by 2015
• = 412 million
(7 per cent)
9. Number and % change of
malnourished in LEDCs
Period
Change
(millions)
% point
change
1970s - 37 9%
1980s - 100 8%
Early 90s - 26
3%
Late 90s +23
Source: SOFI, 2006
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10. A few questions
1. What is the world’s population?
2. What is the percentage of the world’s
population that are undernourished
now?
3. What percentage of Africa’s
population are undernourished?
14. “The region is off track to
meet every Millennium
Development Goal … Without
sustained support, Sub-
Saharan Africa is unlikely to
meet any of the Goals. ”
Millennium Project Final Report (2005)
16. Malthus on
Food & Population
0
20
40
60
80
100
Food
Population
surplus
deficit
17. Thomas Robert Malthus (1798)
An Essay on the Principle of Population
Or a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human
Happiness; with an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting
the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils which It
Occasions
• Population increases
geometrically
• Food production increases
arithmetically
• Leads to food deficit
• Balance is restored by
population ‘checks’ such as
disease, conflict
18. The Conditions of Agricultural Growth: The
Economics of Agrarian Change under Population
Pressure Published in 1965 by Aldine, Chicago
Esther Boserup
• population determines
agricultural methods
• "necessity is the mother of
invention”
• As population pressure
increases, development or
invention increases carrying
capacity (“agricultural
intensification”)
QuickTime
decompre
are needed to see thi
19. Food insecurity is …
• temporary, localised food shortages
• protracted and large-scale famine.
• Chronic, widespread poverty means
millions of people are permanently
vulnerable to famine
20. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Launched on 5th June 2001; World
Environment Day
Completed on 23rd March 2005
1,232 experts
An ‘IPCC for the ecosystems’
http://www.millenniumassessment.org/
21. Changes in Demand
Rapid growth in demand for ecosystem
services between 1960 and 2000:
world population doubled from 3 to 6 billion people
global economy increased more than sixfold
To meet this demand:
food production increased 2 ½ times
water use doubled
wood harvests for pulp and paper production tripled
timber production increased by more than half
installed hydropower capacity doubled
22. Food Production Headline Trends
• Food
production
has more
than doubled
since 1960
• Food
production
per capita
has grown
• Food prices
have fallen
23. Subsistence Cultivation
• > 50% of world population engaged in
subsistence agriculture
• mainly remote areas
• Self-sufficiency
• Production for exchange is minimal
• Extensive - Pastoralism, shifting cultivation
• Intensive - small scale sedentary agriculture
• exclusively subsistence nature breaking
down
30. Case Study 1
• Musa, Tanzanian farmer
• Recently gave up cotton farming to grow
tomatoes
• Delighted with the performance of some
new seeds he bought for last season
• Optimistic about his future as a tomato
farmer
• But: we discovered during the discussion
that his seeds were ‘suicide seeds’ …
31. Case Study 2
• Lamin, Gambian farmer
• Peasant producer in village near River
Gambia
• Keen to develop his horticultural production
business
• Concerned that villagers moving away
because of the attractions of employment in
tourism on the coast
• Leading to rural labour shortages: ‘If we had
more people in the countryside, we could
produce more food.’
32. Case Study 3
• Mustapha, farmer in Kano, Nigeria
• He grows small quantities of
maize, tomatoes and peppers for
the market
• The price he receives varies
according to the economy
• The strength of the economy
depends largely on the global oil
price and the performance of the
Nigerian economy
33. IFPRI Report 2008
• biofuel production
accounts for about
30% of grain price
increases 2000-7
• Existence of food
stocks would help
reduce volatility
34. QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
“People living on less than US$2 a day have
cut out health and education and sold or eaten
their livestock.
Those living on less than US$1 a day have cut
out protein and vegetables from their diet.
Those living on less than US$0.50 a day have
cut out whole meals, and sometimes go days
without meals.
Josette Sheeran, WFP
35. SOFI lessons
• Hunger Reduction is necessary
• Agricultural growth is critical
• Technology can contribute, but under the
right conditions
• Trade can contribute
• Public investment in agriculture is essential
• Development assistance does not target most
in need
• Peace and stability are a prerequisite
36. SOFI Actions
• Focus on hotspots
• Twin-track approach
• Enhance productivity of smallholder agriculture
• Create an environment for private investment
• Combine poverty reduction
• Make trade work for the poorest
• Coordinate resources for agriculture and rural
development
38. Food prices
• The graph contrasts
monthly price changes of
the last 4 + years
• 2005-2006 stable
• 2007 steep increase
• 2008 peak and decline
39.
40. To learn more …
www.foodfirst.org
www.fao.org
www.ifprir.org
www.millenniumecosystem
www.dfid.gov.uk/mdg/
Editor's Notes
17% 1990-92 it was 20% According to FAO on path to meet the MDG of halving the percentage by 2015 - should be 10% However, the absolute number could be 582 million - which is an absolute increased from 412 million in 1992
“ a number within the bounds of statistical error” (SOFI, 2006) 37% -> 28% -> 20 -> 17
Africa accounts for around 25% of the world’s undernourished - it was around 20 % in 1992 and it is projected to be around 30% by 2015.
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Over the past 40 years, globally, intensification of cultivated systems has been the primary source (almost 80%) of increased output. But some countries, predominantly found in Sub-Saharan Africa, have had persistently low levels of productivity, and continue to rely on expansion of cultivated area. in sub-Saharan Africa, however, yield increases accounted for only 34% of growth in production
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