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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.

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.

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

"UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013"

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

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

Added Dec 2011

Almost a billion people go hungry each day after food price rises pushed 40 million more people around the world into the ranks of the undernourished, the UN food agency reported yesterday.

Rising food prices are tightening the squeeze on populations already struggling to buy adequate food, demanding radical reform of the global food system, Oxfam has warned.

About one third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste, according to a study commissioned by the United Nations food agency.

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

An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens