GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Malnutrition, Global Warming, Food Security
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Monday, 18 april, 2016. Horn of africa famine 2011- 2012. Affected were south somalia, east ethiopia and north east kenya. Pastoralists: farmers who keep cows and goats, raising money from their milk. With drought no pasture. Grain prices became exorbitant. Food was too dry. Southern somanis, 2011- 2012, was a region of severe food insecurity . Most urgent and pressing issue food. Diseases of overindulgence (canada) versus disease of malnutrition (somalia) You require daily approx. 2,100 calories for healthy life (<2,000 = malnutrition) Insufficient calories makes common diseases fatal. 2013, diarrhea killed 760,000 children under 6 annually in global south. Insufficient trace elements in diet can debilitate such as lack of iodine and vitamin a. 805 mil people in world suffer from malnutrition (1/8 global population) 98,000 people die/day from hunger diseases. One child under 5 dies every 10 seconds from malnutrition. 165 mil children are stunted physically and/or mentally because of malnutrition. Malnutrition - nearly all in africa.
