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    This document outlines a group research project on social action to fight hunger. It defines hunger and examines its causes such as poverty, war, natural disasters, and poor agricultural infrastructure in developing countries. Over 90% of the world's hungry population lives in developing nations, with over half in Asia and the Pacific. The document discusses how poverty traps people in a cycle of hunger and how environmental degradation exacerbates food insecurity. It provides facts on the scale of world hunger and proposes individual and collective actions people can take to address this issue.

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    This document outlines a group research project on social action to fight hunger. It defines hunger and examines its causes such as poverty, war, natural disasters, and poor agricultural infrastructure in developing countries. Over 90% of the world's hungry population lives in developing nations, with over half in Asia and the Pacific. The document discusses how poverty traps people in a cycle of hunger and how environmental degradation exacerbates food insecurity. It provides facts on the scale of world hunger and proposes individual and collective actions people can take to address this issue.

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    This document outlines a group research project on social action to fight hunger. It defines hunger and examines its causes such as poverty, war, natural disasters, and poor agricultural infrastructure in developing countries. Over 90% of the world's hungry population lives in developing nations, with over half in Asia and the Pacific. The document discusses how poverty traps people in a cycle of hunger and how environmental degradation exacerbates food insecurity. It provides facts on the scale of world hunger and proposes individual and collective actions people can take to address this issue.

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    GROUP RESEARCH PROJECT

    SOCIAL ACTION: FIGHT HUNGER

    Athanasios Tom Kokkinias


    Instructor

    Members
    Fatuma Hassan
    Khadija Abubakar
    Maryelle Data
    Qinghua Sun
    Definition
    hun·ger
    /ˈhʌŋgər/ [huhng-ger]

    –noun
    1. a compelling need or desire for food.
    2. the painful sensation or state of weakness caused by the need of
    food: to collapse from hunger.
    3. a shortage of food; famine.
     Most of the world’s hungry live in developing countries.
    According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
    statistics, there are 925 million hungry people in the world and 98
    percent of them are in developing countries.  They are distributed
    like this:

     578 million in Asia and the Pacific


    265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
    53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
    42 million in the Near East and North Africa
     Nature: earthquake, floods, drought
     War: displaced people, food used as a weapon, farm and wells
    mined
     Poverty Trap: poor farmer cannot afford seeds and poor
    people cannot afford to buy food
     Poor agricultural infrastructure: roads, water, food storage,
     Over-exploitation of environment: deforestation, overcropping
    and overgrazing
     Harmful economic policies
    Natural disasters such as floods, tropical storms and long
    periods of drought are on the increase -- with calamitous
    consequences for food security in poor, developing
    countries.
     Drought is now the single most
    common cause of food shortages
    in the world.
    Since 1992, the proportion of short and long-term food
    crises that can be attributed to human causes has more than
    doubled, rising from 15 percent to more than 35 percent.
    All too often, these emergencies are triggered by conflicts.
     From Asia to Africa to Latin America,
    fighting displaces millions of people
    from their homes, leading to some
    of the world's worst hunger
    emergencies.
     
     
    The poverty-stricken do not have enough money to buy or
    produce enough food for themselves and their families. In
    turn, they tend to be weaker and cannot produce enough to
    buy more food.
    Thepoor are hungry and their
    hunger traps them in poverty.
     Many developing countries lack key agricultural
    infrastructure, such as enough roads, warehouses and
    irrigation. The results are high transport costs, lack of
    storage facilities and unreliable water supplies. 
    All
    conspire to limit
    agricultural yields
    and access to food.
    Poor farming practices, deforestation, over cropping and
    overgrazing are exhausting the Earth's fertility and
    spreading the roots of hunger.

     Increasingly, the world's fertile


    farmland is under threat from
    erosion, salination and
    desertification.
     
     Every year 15 million children die of hunger
     Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger
     To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements
    would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the
    United States and the European Union spend on perfume
    each year.
     For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry
    children could eat lunch every day for 5 years
     More than 40%of people in low- or lower middle income
    households reported food insecurity.
     Even in middle-income households, almost 25%
    reported at least one aspect of the problem.
     About 18% of people food aged 12 to 44 had
    experienced food insecurity.
     18% increase in Food Bank use in 2009
     87% people who use food bank are in rented
    accommodation
     Create awareness of this important issue through
    education and fundraising by setting up a booths in
    Ashtonbee campus. Money raised goes to Foodbank.
     Volunteer in organizations that work to reduce poverty

    and hunger such as Canada without poverty


     Donate to the food bank

     Call politicians to do

    something about hunger


    and poverty in Canada
     Buy products that promote fair trade
     Educate ourselves on global issues and how it impacts
    hunger and poverty example makehungerhistory.org
    campaign
     Donate to advocacy organizations
    LINKS FOR THE IMAGES
     https://wikis.nyu.edu/ek6/modernamerica/index.php/AmericanPowerAmpCulturalHege
    mony/African-AmericanMusic
     http://www.unioncpchurch.com/images/womensministry/hungry.jpg
     http://www.gaatlargeinc.com/images/Feeding%20The%20Hungry.jpg
     http://www.ourplanet.org.uk/drought-climate-change.asp
     http://trendsupdates.com/70-percent-more-food-needed-by-2050-for-projected-9-1-
    billion-world-population/
     http://ka-bayan-ko.blogspot.com/2010/07/education-and-poverty-in-philippines.html
     http://www.canonbiechurch.org.uk/fairtrade.php
     http://gizmodo.com/5108282/hackers-help-loggers-smuggle-17-million-cubic-meters-of-
    wood-out-of-brazil
     http://www.aambis.com/
     http://farmlandgrab.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/infrastructure.jpg
    FACTS LINKS

     http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hunger
     http://www.makehungerhistory.org/content/view/53
     http://www.cwp-csp.ca
     http://www.statcan.gc.ca/studies http://www.cafb-
    acba.ca/documents/HungerCount2009NOV16.pdf
     http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm
     http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes
     http://www.wfp.org/hunger/causes
     http://www.worldhunger.org/harmfuleconomicsystems.htm

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