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Investigating Food Insecurity and Hunger
---à First Stop: “The State of Food Insecurity in 2015” - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/)
1. How is Undernourishment described?
Undernourishment implies that a man is not ready to get enough nourishment to meet the everyday lowest dietary vitality prerequisites, over a time of one year. FAO characterizes hunger as being synonymous with constant undernourishment.
2. How is Hunger defined?
Hunger is how it is defined when your body 's feeling that you need to eat a food. It is a message from your body that you need food or you
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More than one third of the world 's malnourishment lives in India.
c. Country 3: Mongolia
-What percent of the population is undernourished? 0.6 million in 2014-16 and 20.5% in 2014-16
-How has malnourishment changed for this country in the last 15-20 years?
After 1990 Mongolia increased their malnourishment by 0.2 million and and after 2007 to 2016 they decreased their malnourishment by 0.3.
-Do a little extra research on this country…what struggles is the country facing that might contribute to malnourishment?
It is really cold in the countryside and because of that they don’t have water and the main they won’t be able to grow food. From twelve months they only have three months to grow food in fields but most of them don’t have enough things to grow in fields.
6. Click the Glossary Tab. How is Food Insecurity defined?
The state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food. More than 800 million people live every day with hunger or food insecurity as their constant companion.
7. Click the Key Messages Tab. Globally, how many are malnourished?
795 million people are globally