World Food Day - Tackling Global Hunger
World Food Day on 16th October aims to raise awareness and take action against world hunger. Explore the link between hunger and geography, key skills developed, and definitions of terms related to food insecurity and malnutrition.
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What is World Food Day? World Food Day is celebrated on the16th October Its aim is to raise awareness and bring about action dedicated to tackling world hunger In Ireland it is championed by NGO s such as Concern and Self Help Africa
How hunger links to the geography specification? 2.3 Identify how the physical landscape influences the development of primary activities Strand 2 Strand 2 2.6 Examine the causes and implications of climate change https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Stop_Hunger_Now_Logo.png Compare the life chances of a young person in relation to gender equality, healthcare, employment and education opportunities in a developed and developing country Strand 3 Strand 3 2.8 Evaluate the role of development assistance on human development
Key Skills Literacy: learning new terms related to hunger Communicating: highlighting this information within my school community Staying well: being positive about my study of hunger Managing myself: making considered decisions for example about the solutions to world hunger Managing information and thinking: being curious about hunger in the world Working with others: learning from others in my class as we debate topics around hunger such as the effects of climate change Being numerate: interpreting facts and figures related to hunger Being creative: thinking of new ways that I can promote WFD
Key words: Activity 1: Can you define each of these terms? Food Insecurity Hunger Malnutrition Development Assistant NGO s
Key terms defined Now compare your answers to the definitions below. Hunger: people lack enough nutrients to live fully active and healthy lifestyles, it can be both short and long term Malnutrition: not getting enough food or the right kind of foods for your body to stay healthy Food insecurity: the uncertainty around the availability of and access to safe food due to factors such as famine, war or poverty Development assistance: is also know as Aid, all types of help given from one person or country to another NGO s: Non-governmental organizations are voluntary groups that raise money from the public and give it to projects to help people in the developing world For further information: https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/future/
Hunger some basic facts Hunger is one of the world s number one health risk One in seven people will go to bed hungry in the world tonight 98% of these people live in the developing world 65% of the world s hungry live in seven countries Activity 2: Can you name the seven countries? Image: Image:https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQH4HhnsZyK4dTUHv_DlTJd1lZoHj6quLw-yDTyAbpV4Gp5fzxh For further information: https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/future/
Answers 1.India 2.China 3.Sub-Saharan Africa 4.Bangladesh 5.Indonesia 6.Pakistan Image: www.globalhungerindex.org
Factors causing world hunger Poverty Activity 3: In pairs discuss, how many of these link to the factors that affect population growth in general? Disease and illness Low food production Famines and other climatic factors Hint: see the section of your textbook discussing population change LO 3.1 War and conflict
Factors causing world hunger defined Poverty: this leads to underdevelopment of areas as people are unable to afford to feed themselves and their families. Often the food they eat is of poor quality and leads to lack of energy and therefore the inability to work Disease and illness: Hungry and malnourished people are weak and can pick up diseases easily. They also often lack education around basic hygiene and cleanliness Low food production: Poor farming skills and lack of resources along with climate change can leave villages without access to food supplies For further information: https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/future/2/
Factors causing world hunger defined Famines and other climatic factors: Food security in developing world countries with basic resources is undertreat from famines, drought, extremes in climate and natural disasters War and conflict: Since 1992 food crisis caused wars and conflicts has risen from 15% to 35%. As people are forced to flee their homes and food is limited. Even emergency supplies are hard to reach For further information: https://developmenteducation.ie/feature/future/2/
Climate change and its impacts on hunger Activity 4: Here are some of the implications of climate change and some of the solutions. Pick which you feel are the most relevant and why to those suffering hunger in the world today? Implications of climate change: Solutions to climate change: Rise in sea level Conserve energy More severe weather Use renewable energy sources Melting of the polar ice caps Limit deforestation and plant trees More droughts and heat waves Recycle
Activity 5: Compare the life chances of a young person from the developing world suffering from hunger, and a young person like you in relation to the following headings? Hint: see the section of your textbook discussing life chances LO 3.7 Gender equality Heathcare Education Employment Images: wordpress.com, ourworld.unu.edu, factsanddetails.com, bangladeshstudies.orgorg
Development assistance and its impacts on hunger Development assistance is the official name for aid Aid is support or help given by richer countries to poorer countries of the world. It can come in many forms such as financial assistance, technical assistance, food or medical supplies Sources of aid can be governmental (1) Bilateral aid which is given from one country to another e.g. Irish Aid. (2) Multilateral which is given by governments to international bodies such as the United Nations or UN Non-governmental Aid is largely voluntary and provided by the public through organizations such as Concern and Self Help Africa
The role of NGO s in the battle against world hunger The work of NGO s has changed in recent years from the direct provision of services to actively looking for governmental support or at local community level to help build on local skills and resources NGO s use the knowledge they have learned from working with poor communities to argue for national and international policy change to deal with the structural aspects of poverty and hunger These changes must be based on sustainable developments in these vulnerable areas
Sustainable Development Goals Activity 6: Pick three of the following 17 Sustainable Development Goals that you think are the most important in fighting world hunger?
And finally Activity 7: In small groups of 3 or 4 students design posters to highlight World Food Day. These posters can then be displayed around your school. You must include the following: An interesting slogan about World Food Day What, When and Why it is happening An eye-catching image One piece of interesting information you have learned about world hunger that you think people in your school should know about Max total word count 30 words
