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Title: Hunger Banquet


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Hunger Banquet
  • Oxfam America

Text extracted from Oxfam Hunger Banquet materials
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Introduction
  • The world grows more than enough food to feed
    everyone, yet
  • More people are hungry today than ever before
  • an estimated one billion,
  • one in five persons worldwide
  • One of every three children is chronically
    malnourished
  • too hungry to lead an active, healthy life

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Introduction
  • One-third of the grain grown in the world
  • and one-half of the fish caught
  • are fed to animals in rich countries
  • U.S. daily per person calorie supply is 3,671
  • almost twice that of Sudans 1,974
  • fewer calories than needed to maintain a
    productive life

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Introduction
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 1 in 3 people are malnourished
  • half live on less than 1 a day
  • 30 million people required emergency food aid
    (2005 )

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  • The roots of hunger lie in
  • Poverty, war, and the unequal distribution of
    resources,
  • Not in Overpopulation.
  • Many well-fed countries have more people than
    hungry ones.
  • Holland
  • a high-income country
  • has over 1,000 people per square mile
  • Mozambique
  • one of the worlds lowest-income countries
  • has only 48 people per square mile

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  • The roots of hunger lie in
  • poverty, war,
  • unequal distribution of resources
  • Not in Natural Disasters.
  • Five years of drought in California
  • resulted in no direct loss of human life.
  • Five years of drought in Ethiopia
  • over a million people died

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Oxfam Hunger Banquet
  • Everyone on earth has the same basic needs
  • only our circumstances differ
  • where we live and the culture we are born into
  • Some are born into relative prosperity and
    security
  • While millions are born into poverty
  • by no choice of their own

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The High Income Group
  • If you ended up in the high-income group
  • You represent the 15 percent of the worlds
    population
  • fortunate enough to afford a nutritious daily
    diet
  • You live primarily in countries like
  • the United States, Australia, France,
    Switzerland,
  • most countries in Western Europe

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The High Income Group
  • As members of this group, you share the following
    characteristics
  • Your average income is over 9,076.
  • The leading cause of death among you is heart
    disease and diabetes
  • directly related to your over-consumption of
    fatty foods
  • particularly red meat

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The High Income Group
  • Health care is more readily available to you.
  • In the U.S. there is one doctor to every 470
    people
  • compared with one doctor per 7,140 people in
    Haiti
  • In general, your children are healthy and your
    infant mortality rate is low
  • Though you are well-off, millions of your fellow
    citizens live below the poverty line.
  • Most of them are women and children who lack
    access to adequate services.

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The High Income Group
  • You could be
  • Jennifer, an attorney
  • who lives in an affluent suburb of Boston
  • with her husband, an accountant, and two
    children.
  • Shinji, a well-traveled Japanese engineer
  • who lives in a comfortable one-bedroom apartment
    in Tokyo

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The Middle Income Group
  • Those in the middle-income group represent
    roughly 25 of the worlds population.
  • There are more countries in this group than in
    the high-income group
  • countries like Bolivia, the Philippines, Turkey,
    Costa Rica, and Iran

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The Middle Income Group
  • What are your common characteristics?
  • Your average income ranges from 912-9,095.
  • Your children are six times more likely to die of
    hunger and related diseases
  • than if they lived in a high-income country
  • You must use 35 of your income to feed yourself,
  • compared with the 15 people in high-income
    countries spend
  • Your economies are crippled by foreign debt.
  • Debt payments can consume half of your
    governments earnings

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The Middle Income Group
  • You could be
  • Simcha, a man in his thirties, who operates a
    postcard stall in the ancient city of Jerusalem
    to feed his four children
  • Lucia, a schoolteacher in Prague, in the Czech
    Republic
  • who takes in sewing to earn extra income to
    support her aging parents and her children

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The Low Income Group
  • You represent the majority of the worlds
    population.
  • You live in countries where the average income is
    less than 912 a year.
  • Somalia, Honduras, India, and Vietnam are among
    the countries in this group

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The Low Income Group
  • As a member of this group, you share these
    characteristics
  • You are chronically malnourished and eat only
    2,205 calories a day
  • less than the amount needed to lead a healthy,
    hard-working life
  • You cannot afford to own or buy land
  • even land farmed for centuries by your ancestors

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The Low Income Group
  • You may work on a hacienda or large plantation
  • that produces crops such as bananas, sugar, and
    coffee
  • for export to high-and middle-income countries
  • yet you and your family dont get enough to eat.
  • The combined debt owed by all of your governments
    to wealthy nations totals 1.3 trillion
  • more than 200 per person
  • and continues to rise inexorably.
  • Unemployment and hardship in the rural areas is
    driving you into cities
  • where you face even greater hardships

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The Low Income Group
  • You could be
  • Farida, who lives in India where the forests have
    nearly disappeared.
  • Her people have become nomads, wandering in
    search of the water needed for sustenance.
  • Pierre, a farmer in Haiti who rents a hillside
    plot from his landlord.
  • In the dry season when nothing will grow, he
    will make charcoal to sell for the price of a few
    days food

Haiti farmer
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