ANTH 205 Lecture 38

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World Food Crisis

We've highlighted a lot of the good things, but there are some bad things that we need to talk about.

Health is number 1 health risk: kills more than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined

• Iron deficiency: most common malnutrition
• Iodine deficiency: single most common cause of brain damage

• World Food Programme
• Esp. in Sub-Saharan Africa
• 1 G people over-nourished (obese)
• 1 G people are hungry
  • 60% women
  • 98% live in "developing countries"
  • 5 million children die from malnourishment
  • 66% (2/3) are in Asia and Pacific
  • 65% live in only 7 countries:
    • India
    • China
    • Democratic Republic of Congo
    • Bangladesh
    • Indonesia
    • Pakistan
    • Ethiopia

Percentage of household income spent on food:

• US: 16%
• Nigeria: 73%
• Vietnam: 65%
• Indonesia: 50%

Mark Bittman on TED