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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.

Senior doctors today published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever spreading more easily.

The aim of this lesson: To examine the geographic factors responsible for the incidence and spread of malaria. To evaluate the geographic impact of malaria at the local, national and international scales. To evaluate the management strategies that have been applied in any one country or region for malaria. Added March 2012

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

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The aim of this lesson: To be able to examine the environmental, demographic, political, social and economic factors that have caused areas of food deficiency and food insecurity.

The aim of this lesson: To explain the global distribution of diseases of poverty. To explain the global distribution of diseases of affluence. Added Feb 2012

The aim of this lesson: To be able to explain how the geographic concepts of diffusion by relocation and by expansion apply to the spread of diseases. To examine the application of the concept of barriers in attempts to limit the spread of diseases. To describe the factors that have enabled reduction in incidence of a disease. Added Feb 2012