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Miah Murphy

Global Food Crisis (Global Crisis Series) | Planetsave - 0 views

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global world food crisis factors

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  • There is an ominous global crisis about to transpire from a shortage of food and a decline in the global financial system, and it will have a dire effect on all humanity.
  • What is a Food Crisis? “A food crisis occurs when rates of hunger and malnutrition rise sharply at local, national, or global levels. This definition distinguishes a food crisis from chronic hunger, although food crises are far more likely among populations already suffering from prolonged hunger and malnutrition. A food crisis is usually set off by a shock to either supply or demand for food and often involves a sudden spike in food prices.” Timmer, C. (2010)
  • Climate Change & Food Shortage
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  • The effects of climate change are the leading cause of a food shortage.
  • Global Population Growth & Food Crisis
  • The global population is growing at an alarming rate and providing enough food to combat this problem is becoming challenging. The current rate of food production will not be enough to feed the growing population. Food production will have to be increased according to the growth of the world’s population if we are to avoid a total food crisis.
  • In order to have a sustainable future, more farmland will have to be designated to increase crop production.
  • Plant Disease
  • Plant disease can demolish entire crops and spread to other crops within in a region. Plant diseases are hard to control, since they are usually discovered after they have infected the crops.
  • Shortage of Food.. Who Will It Affect?
  • In the event of a food shortage, the possibility of riots and chaos against governments pose a significant risk.
jenniferchoe

Income - Brazil - product, average, growth, annual, power - 0 views

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    The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) reports that in 2001 Brazil's gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $1.34 trillion. The per capita GDP was estimated at $7,400. The annual growth rate of GDP was estimated at 1.9%. The average inflation rate in 2001 was 7.7%.
Rachel Murray

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russia WHO tobacco

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  • 60.2% of men and 21.7% of women smoke in Russia. A total of 43.9 million adults smoke in Russia, which adds up to almost 40% of the population. This is the highest percentage of smokers in any of the 14 countries where the survey was carried out.
  • As a result, 400,000 Russians die every year from smoking-related health problems.
  • Russia ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on 24.04.2008, passing federal law № 51-FZ “On the accession of the Russian Federation to the WHO Convention on Tobacco Control”, thereby becoming the 157th country in the world to take on the responsibility of adhering to this convention.
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  • “In setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control, Parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law.”
  • restrictions on the manufacture and wholesale and retail sale of tobacco and tobacco products; banning the sale of tobacco products to and by minors (Article 16);
  • Regions will have the right to establish even stricter regulations on the location and conditions of tobacco sales, as well as the right to determine where smoking will be banned.
Miah Murphy

World Food Crisis, Global Food Crisis website - 0 views

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global world food crisis factors

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  • Systemic causes for the worldwide increases in food prices continue to be the subject of debate.
  • Systemic causes for the worldwide increases in food prices continue to be the subject of debate. Initial causes of the late 2006 price rises included unseasonable droughts in grain producing nations and rising oil prices. Oil prices further heightened the costs of fertilizers, food transport, and industrial agriculture. Other causes of the food crisis may be the increasing use of biofuels in developed countries, and an increasing demand for a more varied diet, meat in particular, across the expanding middle-class populations of Asia. These factors, coupled with falling world food stockpiles have all contributed to the dramatic worldwide rise in food prices. Long-term causes of the food crisis remain a topic of debate. These may include structural changes in trade and agricultural production, agricultural price supports and subsidies in developed nations, diversions of food commodities to high input foods and fuel, commodity market speculation, and climate change.
  • 136%, maize by 125% and soybeans by 107%. In late April 2008, rice prices hit 24
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  • Effects of food for fuel
  • Biofuel subsidies in the US and the EU
  • Agricultural subsidies
  • Uncontrolled world population growth
  • Increased demand for resource intensive food
  • Distorted global rice market
  • Decreased crops from natural disasters
  • Soil and productivity losses
  • Rising levels of ozone
  • Effects of oil price increases
  • Impact of trade liberalization
  • Financial speculation
  • Reduction in world food stockpiles
jenniferchoe

Brazil income inequality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brazil has been tackling problems of income inequality despite high rates of growth. Its GDP (gross domestic product) growth in 2010 was 7.5%[1] yet its GINI coefficient, a measure of its inequality was reported at 0.543 in 2009.[2] In the recent decades, there has been a decline in inequality for the country as a whole (Fig 1).
Miah Murphy

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world food crisis sources solutions

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  • An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates.
  • more than 6 billion people living in the world today
  • United Nations estimates that close to 1 billion suffer from chronic hunger
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  • leaves out those suffering from vitamin and nutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition
  • total number of food insecure people who are malnourished or lacking critical nutrients is probably closer to 3 billion—about half of humanity
  • approximately 18,000 children die daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition
  • over 35 million people lived in food-insecure households, including 13 million children
  • Due to a lack of food adults living in over 12 million households could not eat balanced meals and in over 7 million families someone had smaller portions or skipped meals
  • In close to 5 million families, children did not get enough to eat at some point during the year
  • In poor countries too, it is not unusual for large supplies of wasted and misallocated food to exist in the midst of widespread and persistent hunger
  • No ‘Right to Food’
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      Miah Murphy on 01 Nov 11
       
      Section 1: Right to Food (Question 1)
  • Ending World Hunger
Shana Thomas

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    -just to have; only useful info is that Italy opened its first hydrogen power plant - also producing green products/ recycling - architecture is becoming more greeen
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