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@QQQQQQQQQQQ WORLD FOOD DAY DID YOU KNOW? v.00,000,000 people suffer chronic hunger and malnutrition; many of these are children t'fects of malnutrition; inadequate brain development. blindness. physical deformities torth Americans eat 5 times as much as the average Indian or African. V V -‘he world produces 2 pounds of grain per day. an average of 3,000 calories per day per person. he 4 Asian countries that feed their people best â€" Chi ad in all Asia. mar 100 countries are in “food deficit“ â€" their people consume more food than they 77 million hecatres of agricultural land are lost to soil deterioration each year, I WWW produce. October lo. is the first day of its kind. but will become an annual event. Chosen because of the anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. people around the world will have an opportunity to rev na, Vietnam. South Korea and Taiwan â€" have the least land per 41%” “if as Lautvtamnon m Putin tint l N“ examine the global food picture. ) ) WHY IS THERE HUNGER IN THE WORLD? ( ( There are no hungry countries. There are countries where my people are hungry â€" they cannot grow. or afford to _\‘. enough to feed themselves or their families. In that rise. many Canadians are hungry. But in poor countries, 't' or more of the people may be in grave danger at any ‘3 time, and many of them live in the countryside. Westerners may think this is because of over-population. tught. or laziness on the part of the people themselves. at these explanations are all myths. Holland. for example. me of the most denslyâ€"populated countries in the world. ipulation does not eause hunger, although it can aggravate ' Situation. The problem lies in the structure of landholding. The asant who gives tender loving care to the little land they . osess are the most efficient farmers in the world. How- et. about 100 million rural residents in the Third World = an no land, and relatively few landholders have enough ten to feed themselves through the year. The vast majority of land in these nations is owned and "‘nn‘olled by very small groups of people. and the wealth mat is produced from the crops on that land goes [0 HI6 owners alone. The peasants who work in the huge estates receive very low wages. and may spend a large part of the year starving, To say that land reform is necded in lhc dcvcliiping nations is an understatement, The second reason for hunger is the cash crop syslcin When you have a piece of land. you can decide to farm it two ways. One is to grow almost everything you need and live off the products. The other is to grow one or two main crops and sell them for cash. uhich you \tould use [H huy other kinds of food. This system was impost on many Third World countries in colonich times. Some countries have one major crop that is not a loud itcni. because of this the countries cannot produce all the food they need. There is an apparent need to aehicvc sell-sufficiency in food hct‘orc producing cash crops of another naturc. There are two reasons why many countries have proh- lems with starvation and malnutrition. It has nothing to do Wllh the size of the population or the amount ot'iniliativc the people have. It has everything to do With political. economic or historical circumstances that the starving mill- ions did not create. :‘EQQEQQQQQQQQEQtEQ