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 CommodityProductionFood supply (kcal/cap/day) % food supply Million mt Needed per day/person All All vegetable All animal Cereals Starchy roots Sugars Pulses61552 Oil crops Vegetable oils Vegetables Fruits Coffee, tea1660 Alcohol Meat Eggs61331 Milk Fish other 893

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

CFGB member response

Pakistan Floods 2011

2011 East Africa Famine

Kenyan Refugee Camp

Famine relief

Sand Dams

Conservation Farming

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