Title: Hunger Banquet
1Hunger Banquet
Text extracted from Oxfam Hunger Banquet materials
2Introduction
- 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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3Introduction
- 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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4Introduction
- 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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5- 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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6- 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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Ethiopia 1983
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7Oxfam 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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8The 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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9The 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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10The 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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11The 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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12The 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
Iranian Woman
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13The 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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14The 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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15The 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
Child labor, India
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16The 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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17The 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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18The 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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