1. World Food Day 16th October 2018
Hunger

2. World Food Day is celebrated on the16th October
What is World Food Day?
World Food Day is celebrated on the16th October
Its aim is to raise awareness and bring about action dedicated to tackling world hunger
In Ireland it is championed by NGO’s such as Concern and Self Help Africa

3. How hunger links to the geography specification?
Strand 2
2.3 Identify how the physical landscape influences the development of primary activities
2.6 Examine the causes and implications of climate change
Strand 3
Compare the life chances of a young person in relation to gender equality, healthcare, employment and education opportunities in a developed and developing country
2.8 Evaluate the role of development assistance on human development

4. Key Skills Literacy: learning new terms related to hunger
Communicating: highlighting this information within my school community
Managing information and thinking: being curious about hunger in the world
Being numerate: interpreting facts and figures related to hunger
Being creative: thinking of new ways that I can promote WFD
Working with others: learning from others in my class as we debate topics around hunger such as the effects of climate change
Managing myself: making considered decisions for example about the solutions to world hunger
Staying well: being positive about my study of hunger

5. Key words: Activity 1: Can you define each of these terms?
Hunger
Malnutrition
Food Insecurity
Development Assistant
NGO’s

6. Key terms defined Now compare your answers to the definitions below.
Hunger: people lack enough nutrients to live fully active and healthy lifestyles, it can be both short and long term
Malnutrition: not getting enough food or the right kind of foods for your body to stay healthy
Food insecurity: the uncertainty around the availability of and access to safe food due to factors such as famine, war or poverty
Development assistance: is also know as Aid, all types of help given from one person or country to another
NGO’s: Non-governmental organizations are voluntary groups that raise money from the public and give it to projects to help people in the developing world
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7. Hunger some basic factsz
Hunger some basic facts
Hunger is one of the world’s number one health risk One in seven people will go to bed hungry in the world tonight 98% of these people live in the developing world 65% of the world’s hungry live in seven countries Activity 2: Can you name the seven countries?
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8. Answers India China Sub-Saharan Africa Bangladesh Indonesia Pakistan
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9. Factors causing world hunger
Poverty
Disease and illness
Low food production
Famines and other climatic factors
War and conflict
Activity 3: In pairs discuss, how many of these link to the factors that affect population growth in general?
Hint: see the section of your textbook discussing population change LO 3.1

10. Factors causing world hunger defined
Poverty: this leads to underdevelopment of areas as people are unable to afford to feed themselves and their families. Often the food they eat is of poor quality and leads to lack of energy and therefore the inability to work
Disease and illness: Hungry and malnourished people are weak and can pick up diseases easily. They also often lack education around basic hygiene and cleanliness
Low food production: Poor farming skills and lack of resources along with climate change can leave villages without access to food supplies
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11. Factors causing world hunger defined
Famines and other climatic factors: Food security in developing world countries with basic resources is undertreat from famines, drought, extremes in climate and natural disasters
War and conflict: Since 1992 food crisis caused wars and conflicts has risen from 15% to 35%. As people are forced to flee their homes and food is limited. Even emergency supplies are hard to reach
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12. Climate change and its impacts on hunger Activity 4: Here are some of the implications of climate change and some of the solutions. Pick which you feel are the most relevant and why to those suffering hunger in the world today?
Implications of climate change:
Rise in sea level
More severe weather
Melting of the polar ice caps
More droughts and heat waves
Solutions to climate change:
Conserve energy
Use renewable energy sources
Limit deforestation and plant trees
Recycle

13. Activity 5: Compare the life chances of a young person from the developing world suffering from hunger, and a young person like you in relation to the following headings? Hint: see the section of your textbook discussing life chances LO 3.7
Gender equality
Heathcare
Employment
Education
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14. Development assistance and its impacts on hunger
Development assistance is the official name for aid
Aid is support or help given by richer countries to poorer countries of the world. It can come in many forms such as financial assistance, technical assistance, food or medical supplies
Sources of aid can be governmental (1) Bilateral aid which is given from one country to another e.g. Irish Aid. (2) Multilateral which is given by governments to international bodies such as the United Nations or UN
Non-governmental Aid is largely voluntary and provided by the public through organizations such as Concern and Self Help Africa

15. The role of NGO’s in the battle against world hunger
The work of NGO’s has changed in recent years from the direct provision of services to actively looking for governmental support or at local community level to help build on local skills and resources
NGO’s use the knowledge they have learned from working with poor communities to argue for national and international policy change to deal with the structural aspects of poverty and hunger
These changes must be based on sustainable developments in these vulnerable areas

16. Sustainable Development Goals
Activity 6: Pick three of the following
17 Sustainable Development Goals
that you think are the most important
in fighting world hunger?

17. And finally…
Activity 7: In small groups of 3 or 4 students design posters to highlight World Food Day. These posters can then be displayed around your school. You must include the following:
An interesting slogan about World Food Day
What, When and Why it is happening
An eye-catching image
One piece of interesting information you have learned about world hunger that you think people in your school should know about
Max total word count 30 words

18. Thank you
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