East African famine

G2:East African famine

East African famine in 2011 is very serious. A lot of people is focus on these report. And make us feel how happiness we are. If you go and surch about this kind of report,you will be more thankful of the things around us. Today I want to tell you about these kind of report, and I think ypu can learn a lot in this article and fell more sympathy.


This is the picture about famine distribution,and we can know it's uneven .

WHAT'S FAMINE?

A famine is a widespread scarcity of food. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
Emergency measures in relieving famine primarily include providing deficient micronutrients, such as vitamins and minerals, through fortified sachet powders or directly through supplements. The famine relief model increasingly used by aid groups calls for giving cash or cash vouchers to the hungry to pay local farmers instead of buying food from donor countries, often required by law, as it wastes money on transport costs, but more importantly, it perpetuates the cycle of dependency on foreign imports rather than helping to create real local stability through agricultural abundance. Such independence however does rest upon local conditions of soil, water, temperature and so on.
Long-term measures include investment in modern agriculture techniques, such as... fertilizers and irrigation, which largely eradicated hunger in the developed world. World Bank strictures restrict government subsidies for farmers, and increasing use of fertilizers is opposed by some environmental groups because of its unintended consequences: adverse effects on water supplies and habitatFood Distribution


This is the Victims in camps in Somaniya.
1.Two thirds of people on the earth live in areas where the food supplies are insufficient.
2.Over one half of the countries cannot produce enough food for themselves.
3.Twenty percent of people on the earth suffer from long-term malnutrition. The situations in Africa and South Asia are most severe.
4.In 2007, one third of the corns in the U.S.A were used in producing biofuel that made the food prices even higher.
5.Over forty million people of thirty-six countries in Africa are threatened by starvation. There are estimated three and half million to four million people in Kenya do not have enough food.
6.Everyone on the earth can have 340kg of food every year on the average, but the people in the developed countries can have 580kg of food every year on the average. Therefore, people in the developing country can have only 170kg of food every year on the average.
7.In 1995, American people wasted forty-three million and seven hundred thousand tons of food.
8. People in England dump four million apples, one million sausages and three million tomatoes every year, but it is just part of food wasting.

They are the refugee in Somaniya

Food crisis：

The unequal distribution of resources: The food crisis explained

One of the most striking examples of the unequal distribution of resources on the planet is the existence of chronic hunger in some parts of the world. Especially for children, hunger can be deadly or have grave consequences. As such, one of the millennium development goals is to reduce severe and moderate malnutrition by half among childrenthat are younger than five years old.

They are the website you can get the information:

1. http://www.epochtimes.com/b5/11/7/26/n3325869.htm

2. http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/nov/02/trafficking-on-rise-horn-africa
I found some movies/reports,and it is so poor , that level is not we can think about. So I suggest you can go to youtube and see some movie. I hope you can have new ideas about them.
And they are two movis i found. I think it is great for us to see.I hope you can learn a lot luke me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIpkSjwtB74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8KQ36m6tvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ztM4QpWKW0

After reading the report do you have any ideas about this article?