World Hunger

By: Cristian Flores, Levina Soetyono, Jennifer White,

and Tatum Vedder

World Hunger Definition● Food insecurity is a household-

level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food. Food-insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time.

● Hunger is an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity.

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History of Global Hunger

● Historically, most humans produced food for themselves.

● Eventually, industrialization and globalization allowed major

manufactured food production and global food trade.

● However, wars such as the WWI and WWII severed food distribution

due to destroyed infrastructure and inflation of food prices.

Causes of World Hunger

● Population

● Climate change

● Food and agricultural policy

● Wars and conflict

● Poverty.

Current World Hunger● Based on the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) released by the International

Food Policy Research Institute, the number of malnutrition and hunger worldwide has declined.

● The amount of people who are undernourished has gone up since 2015 from 777 million to 857 million people in 2016.

● A side of effect of improving Hunger in communities is these communities then begin to suffer from Obesity.

History of Hunger in the U.S.A.

● Begins during the civil war.● Origins of food stamps (1939-1941)● Widespread hunger awareness in late 1960s led to food

stamps reestablishment.● Food stamps in the 1970s

Current Hunger in the U.S.A.

http://map.feedingamerica.org

Increase in Obesity in the U.S.A.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH0tWM4H0h8

Waste and Hunger● The four dimensions of Food Access:

1. physical availability of food, 2. economic and physical access to food, 3. food utilization, 4. the stability of those other dimensions over time.

● Food Waste happens when there is a lack of education of how to take care of the produce and food insecurity.

● But their are initiatives being placed around the world to help with Hunger and Waste. For example in Houston, Texas the program Brighter Bites has begun to education kids and parents inside of the school on how to lower the waste of food

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Recommendations for Meal Managers

● Sustainability measures to help food insecurity

● Biofortification of staple crops

● Resources for people experiencing food insecurity

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Biofortification

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Solutions

● Eat beans and legumes in place of animal protein

● Grow your own crops● Purchase produce locally and in season● Donate food

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Conclusion

● Hunger is decreasing worldwide but continues to be a problem

● Practice sustainability● Aim to reduce climate change● Avoid food waste

References● Feeding America, 2017, Map the Meal Gap, http://map.feedingamerica.org

● USDA, 2017, Definitions of Food Security, https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-

assistance/food-security-in-the-us/definitions-of-food-security

● World Health Organization, 2016, Biofortification of staple crops, http://www.who.int/elena/titles/biofortification/en/

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