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Food Shortages
Name Olivia McConney
Define Undernutrition.
Undernutrition is when people do not have enough food per day. They get less then 1500
calories a day.
Define Malnutrition
Malnutrition is when people do not get enough of the right foods everyday. They do not
get minerals, vitamens and proteins in their diets every day.
Use the World Food Programme Interactive Hunger Map, a link to which can be found
here:
http://www.geographyalltheway.com/igcse_geography/economic_development/agricultural_systems/igcse_food_shortages.htm
to complete the following table.
Country
Mozambique
% of the Total Population Undernourished
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Afghanistan
Sierra Leone
Niger
Tunisia
Honduras
North Korea
China
Bolivia
Iraq
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For each of the following physical causes of food shortages – explain how they cause
food shortage and the consequences of the food shortage.
Use the links on:
http://www.geographyalltheway.com/igcse_geography/economic_development/agricultural_systems/igcse_food_shortages.htm
to help you complete the following table.
Food Shortage
Causes
fine sand in sahara desert is
expanding southwards,
swalloing up homes. Worse in
Soil Exhaustion
April because strong
sandstorms get sand in
homes.
Dry spells result to no water.
There was no rain between
Drought
april and may causing no food
to grow. Water sources have
dried up.
Flood
Tropical Cyclones
heavy rainstorms can cause
floods along with overflowing
rivers etc.
intense rain can cause
cyclones,
Pests
outbreaks of locusts. locusts
lay eggs. desert locusts breed
fast.
Disease
first pathogenic plant fungus.
spreads rapidly
Consequences
Water is being covered by sand.
Cutting down so many trees is
letting the sand pass quicker,
destroying their homes faster.
Drought that has hit northern,
southern and western Afghanistan
has killed many people, especially
young children. People's crops have
died because of the dry spell.
Causes people to lose homes or even
lives. Subsistence farmers suffer
from not being able to grow crops
because water covers their fields,
stopping crops from growing.
death, no food. Subsistence farmers
lose crops and land. money needed
to help feed people.
swarm of locusts can eat same
amount of food as 2,500 people.
locusts leave people without food.
1/2 world population needs rice to
live. infects rice plant which
eventually kills it, stopping the
production of rice, stopping income.
fungus life code can be read which
means they can find cures to the
disease!
For each of the following human causes of food shortages – explain how they cause food
shortage and the consequences of the food shortage.
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to help you complete the following table.
Food Shortage
Causes
not enough maize is being
grown, one of the main crops,
Poverty
causing hunger. higher prices
caused not a lot of maize
production
bad roads. borders are sealed
off. taleban block food stocks
Transport
from being transported.
Difficulties
winter will make roads even
trickier.
armed forces stop food from
getting to people. armed
War and Civil
forces destroy crops that
Conflict
people need, take away relief
aid.
food is being sent to other
people when the people who
Commercial
make the food are still
Farming
hungry. people question the
economics of foreign
exchange.
Consequences
not enough maize delivered
worldwide. people are hungry b/c
maize is one of the main food
sources for them
hard to make deliveries because of
bad roads. people cannot eat and
starve because they cannot get to
the food that cannot come into their
area.
people are hungry because they
cannot get food that should be
brought to them or their crops are
destroyed .
the people who grow the crops do
not get any food to feed themselves
or family members; all the food is
sent to western parts of the world.
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