TSW 5 Describe the challenges associated with feeding the people of the world using, correctly, the appropriate associated terms: malnutrition, drought, famine, subsistence farming, the green revolution

By Ju Hee BaeTSW 5

Describe the challenges associated with feeding the people of the world using, correctly, the appropriate associated terms: malnutrition, drought, famine, subsistence farming, the green revolution

MalnutritionThe insufficient / excessive / imbalanced consumption of nutrients

South Asia has largest number of malnourished children in the worldIts because of inappropriate infant feeding and care practices, poor access to health services or poor sanitationUnder-nutrition prevalence rates for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan range between 38 51Individuals lose more than 10% of lifetime earnings because of malnutritionA country can lose up to 3% of GDP per yearWhy doesnt the govt take an action?There is little demand for nutrition services from communities because malnutrition is often invisiblePeople are unaware that moderate and mild malnutrition contributes to death, disease and low intelligenceMalnourished families tend to be poor and not have much voice

About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished

The study finds that economic downturn has severely affected purchasing power in low-income countries resulting in under-nourishment and high child mortality rateshttp://www.thp.org/node/5759DroughtA drought is a long period of very dry weather. It is a long time with little or no rain

From 1998 - 2001, severe drought persisted across a large area of Central and Southwest Asia, including Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, affecting 60 million people in a grave humanitarian crisis aggravated by chronic political instability in many parts of this region, and war in Afghanistan

Drought in Somalia

Drought across southern China and Southeast Asia has brought the Mekong River to its lowest level in 50 yearsThe Dachaoshan dam in China, which is located on the upper Mekong River

Southeast Asias rainy season came to an early end in October 2004, and since that time, little rain has fallen on the Indochina Peninsula and parts of southern ChinaThe dry spell has launched the region into the worst drought it has seen in years, with wells and reservoirs drying, crops withering, food shortagesFamineExtreme and general scarcity of food, as in a country or a large geographical area

North Korea is the major country experiencing famineIt came from the cumulative effects of a fractured economic infrastructure and inadequate food productionOver 22 million people must rely on food produced from the barely 20% of arable land availableIt led planting crops on steep hillsides, destroying the forest cover and causing erosionIt is estimated by the govt that over 40% of children under five are malnourishedHigh proportion of pregnant women are also malnourishedSubsistence FarmingGrowth of crops predominantly for consumption by the farm family rather than for sale.

Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Asia in terms of economicsAround 80% of population is employed in agriculture and subsistence farmingCambodia has the highest infant mortality rates in the region because of highest occurrences of death by landminesPoor healthcare system and lack of resources rates high deaths from diseases such as AIDS

$ 6,800 was donated to the Mangyan tribal people in Philippines and the money was used to purchase 7.5 acres of land for subsistence farming

Green RevolutionA series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between 1943 and the late 1970s, that increased industrialized agriculture production in many developing nationsMajor benefits of the Green Revolution were experienced mainly in northern and northwestern India between 1965 - 1980sResulted in a substantial increase in the production of food grains, mainly wheat and riceImplemented only in areas with assured supplies of water and the means to control it, large inputs of fertilizers, and adequate farm credit