the world current produces enough food to feed 8 billion people
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The world current produces enough food to feed 8 Billion people.
So why are one billion people hungry?
Global Grain Production
Food Balance Sheet (2005) From fao.org
Commodity Production Food supply (kcal/cap/day)
% food supply
Million mt
Needed per day/personAll
21502761
All vegetable 2287 83All animal 474 17
Cereals 2048 1289 47Starchy roots 726 148 5Sugars 1567 222 8Pulses 61 55 2Oil crops 462 55 2Vegetable oils 124 262 9Vegetables 865 77 3Fruits 524 83 3Coffee, tea 16 6 0Alcohol 265 66 2Meat 258 217 8Eggs 61 33 1Milk 644 126 5Fish 133 30 1other 89 3
Where do the grains go?Where do the grains go?
What is happening to the world’s food supply ?
• A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year.
That's about one-third of total edibles produced for humans.
Global Meat Consumption
Biofuels
Biofuels = Grain Consumption
Food Aid, Food Security, Food Justice
Give a person a fish – Sharing food
Access to the pond – Global food “rules”
Teach a person to fish – Improving Access to food
• distributed according to family need – based on UN’s WFP daily ration
• usually whole grains
• school feeding programs
•food can also be used as a wage good in food for work
• rations for IDPs & refugees
Food Aid
•necessities such as water jugs, cooking pots and blankets maybe supplied by other church resources
tools & seeds (locally appropriate)
Mongolia
Food Security
education
Food For Work
water conservation(wells, reservoirs, irrigation)
reforestation & soil conservation building or rebuilding of community infrastructure
Food Justice
•MDG• Food Aid Convention•Right To Food•Climate Change•Foreign Aid•Aid For Agriculture
Russian Drought 2010
Pakistan Flood 2010
Pakistan Flood 2010
CFGB member response
Pakistan Floods 2011
2011 East Africa Famine
Kenyan Refugee Camp
Famine relief
Sand Dams
Conservation Farming
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