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A Hungry World provides background information, statistics, case studies, classroom activities and action ideas for teaching about global food insecurity. In this resource students explore the many causes and impacts of the food crisis, such as rising fuel prices, ethanol and meat production and commodities markets-while considering the complex ways in which causes and impacts are interrelated. Students examine their own food consumption, read case studies about affected children and families and consider the difficult choices families are sometimes forced to make when their food supply diminishes.

"Do crop intensification techniques hold the key to food security?"

The aim of this lesson: To be able to examine the impacts at a variety of scales of trade barriers, agricultural subsidies, bilateral and multilateral agreements, and transnational corporations (TNCs) on the production and availability of food. Added Jan 2012

Water scarcity's effect on food production means radical steps will be needed to feed population expected to reach 9bn by 2050

"Must the poor go hungry just so the rich can drive?"

A four page PDF on the link between biofuel production and food shortages.

The Thanet Earth complex in Kent is expected to boost British production of salad vegetables by 15 per cent

The world's food production needs to double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population.

British supermarkets are driving rapid destruction of the Amazon rainforest by using meat from farms responsible for illegal deforestation , according to a three-year investigation of the global trade in Brazilian cattle products.