GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Primogeniture, Natural Disaster, World Food Programme

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1HB3
• Professor: Walter Peace

Document Summary

Is there enough food to feed 7 billion people: 2. What is the link between food and population: 3. Why are so many people hungry: 4. How will food be distributed in 2050 when population is estimated to be 9 billion: the nutritional quality of human life. Hunger: the lack of basic food required for energy and for meeting nutritional needs such that an individual cannot lead a normal , healthy life. Malnutrition: lack of essential nutrients, e. g. , vitamins, minerals. Undernourishment: the lack of adequate food energy. Average caloric consumption: developed world 3,300 cal. /day, developing world 2,100 cal. /day, much of sub-saharan africa/asia less than 2,000 cal. /day, (1/3 of 200 million sub-saharan africans undernourished highest % of any world region, * note about averages. Consequences of malnutrition: limited physical/neurological development, lower resistance to disease (morbidity, mortality, higher infant mortality rate, 11 million children < 5 years old die each year in developing world;