Food Around the World

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Food Around the World

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Enough food for 6.5 Billion but . .

• Obesity is a major health problem in the USA
• People are malnourished and starving in many
  parts of the world
• Food deprivation is used by some governments
  experiencing civil wars
• Much food aid sent to developing countries or
  disaster areas does not reach those most in need
  due to corrupt governments
• Underneath all this is the basic fact that humans
  need food to live . . . .
• There may be enough food however, there is a
  great disparity in the accessibility of food from
  country to country or region to region.

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Stung by soaring food prices, angry Egyptians
throng a kiosk selling government-subsidized
bread near the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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A mountain of soybeans from Brazil rises in the
hold of a cargo ship bound for China, where they
will be crushed for cooking oil and animal feed.
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Workers in India's fertile Punjab pull an
overstuffed load of rice stalks to a farm where
they will be used as animal feed.
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Bangladesh - A woman sweeps a harvested rice
field, gleaning leftover grains to feed her
family.
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Steam rises from rice being processed at a small
mill in Rangpur, in northern Bangladesh.
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Ethiopia - The sorghum porridge at this refugee
camp lacks the protein and fat needed for an
Afari mother to produce enough milk to
breast-feed her malnourished son. Go to the next
slide to get the full impcat of the picture.
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Continuing a 2,000-year-old tradition, women
harvest rice by hand on the Banaue terraces in
the Philippines.
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Skilled fingers separate good seed from bad at
the International Rice Research Institute in Los
Baños, Philippines.
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Small portions of rice and boiled beef are all
the dinner Marylyn Tolentino and her family of
seven can afford in their village home near
Manila, Philippines.
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One of the world's billion people who survive on
less than a dollar a day, Mahabbat Ali Sheikh
buys rice for his family at the Shaghata bazaar,
in northern Bangladesh.
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Great Plains wheat farm in the USA
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Farmers market in Kenya
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Outdoor market in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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Grocery store in a developed country
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Cooking his Satay Octopus at the Parap Outdoor
Market
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Restaurant food preparation in a developed
country.
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South Sudan girls pounding grain to prepare it
for cooking.
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Preparing grain in factories (flour mills) for
use in developed countries.
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Cooking at home in Bangladesh
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Cooking at home in a developed country.