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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.

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The swine flu virus has reached 160 countries and could infect two billion people within the next two years, the World Health Organization has said.

Food prices soared in 2007 and early 2008, throwing hundreds of millions of people around the world into poverty.

Special report with outbreak map

National public health bodies are co-ordinating their work to prevent the spread of a new swine flu virus, the World Health Organisation says.

good for using with resources and population growth type questions

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