Food shortages

1. Define undernutrition.
2. Define malnutrition.

World Food Programme - HungerMap LIVE

3. Use the WFO HungerMap to find the % of the total population is undernourished for these countries:
   • Mozambique
   • Afghanistan
   • Sierra Leone
   • Niger
   • Tunisia
   • Honduras
   • North Korea
   • China
   • Bolivia
   • Iraq
4. For each of the following physical causes of food shortages – explain how they cause food shortage and the consequences of the food shortage.

Physical causes of food shortages

• Soil exhaustion → BBC News - Nigerian houses swallowed by sand [23 January 2007]
• Drought - BBC News - Afghanistan's neglected drought [22 November 2006]
• Flood - thenewhumanitarian.org - Floods threaten food security in Bujumbura Rural [25 January 2007]
• Tropical cyclones - BBC News - Guatemala faces hunger 'timebomb' [10 November 2005]
• Pests - Africa warned over locust swarms [12 October 2006]
• Disease - Rice fungus genome mapped at last [21 April 2005]

5. For each of the following human causes of food shortages – explain how they cause food shortage and the consequences of the food shortage.

Human causes of food shortages

• Poverty - BBC News - Severe hunger looms for Zimbabwe [26 January 2007]
• Transport difficulties - BBC News - Afghan aid: The supply problems [7 October 2001]
• War and civil conflict - BBC News - Conflicts 'feeding global hunger' [16 October 2006]
• Commercial farming - BBC News - Aid workers grope for famine causes [23 August 2002]

There is large scale famine in some developing countries. This may be they result of: physical factors, economic factors, political factors. Explain why there are food shortages in some parts of the world. You may refer to examples which you have studied. [7 Marks]