Study Figure 1A which shows the distribution of malnourished people in the world, 2001-2003.

1a.Describe the global distribution of malnourished people

1b. What is meant by ‘ malnutrition’?

1c. Some possible reasons for malnutrition includes:
1 Purchasing power
2 Lack of food stability and security
3 Lack of technology in agriculture

Discuss ,using examples of countries you have studied, the above reasons to show how they can cause malnutrition among the people.

Read the following article which gives information of the Blue Revolution.

Like the Green Revolution of the 1960s, the Blue Revolution a decade later was supposed to increase global food production miraculously and stave off widespread hunger.

By 1985, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and a variety of other international aid agencies were pumping $200 million a year into aquaculture projects. Mangrove forests in the Philippines, Thailand and Ecuador were chopped down to make way for shrimp ponds.

The compelling attraction of intensive commercial aquaculture is that it generates export revenue. In addition, it's relatively efficient: beef cattle require seven pounds of grain to produce a pound of meat. Catfish require only 1.7 pounds of grain to produce a pound of fish.

Intensive coastal fish farming has also been linked to 'red tides' - an explosive growth of toxic algae that can kill fish and fatally poison people who eat contaminated seafood.

Philippine prawn farms are not producing food for the hungry, nor are they providing employment for hundreds of jobless sugar workers.

Others were simply schemes that allowed the wealthy to privatize what had previously been a public resource used by subsistence farmers and fisherfolk.

Adapted from new internationalist issue 234 - August 1992

1d. Referring to the article, discuss the impacts of the Blue Revolution.

The figure 1B below shows problems experienced by many poor farmers in India while Figure 1C shows the solutions introduced to help them.

Fig 1B

“A massive development effort led by pioneering scientists and American foundations, it introduced high-yielding varieties of rice and wheat, expanded the use of irrigation, pesticides and fertilizers, and transformed these northwestern plains into the breadbasket of India”

adapted http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/18/business/indiafood.php

Fig 1C

Discuss how the above solutions helped to solve the problems faced by Indian farmers. How successful were the solutions?

Do the questions first before you see the solution.

1a. Describe the global distribution of malnourished people.

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  Sub-saharan Africa, China, India and Asia/Pacific regions show highest numbers of malnourished people (range from 150 million to 206million


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  Latin America, Caribbean, Middle East and transitional countries range from 25million to 52million.


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  while Industrialised countries only show 9million malnourished people.
  

1b. What is meant by ‘ malnutrition’?

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  condition where there is imbalanced of nutrients due to lack of food or eating too much of a particular type of food , to the exclusion of others.