Famine
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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FAMINE
What is famine?
- Famine is when food is scarce in a community or country. This can be because of crop failure, overpopulation or government policies
- In this situation people are normally affected by malnutrition, starvation, epidemic of diseases and increased mortality.
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CAUSES OF FAMINE
- Overpopulation
- Crop failure
- War
- Drought
- Government policies
- Country is poor
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Ways to prevent famine
- Donate money to charity
- Create advertisments about famine
- Make posters about famine
- 40 Hour Famine
- Donate food to charity
- Make websites about famine
- Inform people about famine
Statistics
- 3.1 million children under the age of 5 die from famine each year.
- 6.3 million children die from famine in all of Africa each year that is 5% of the population.
- Famine causes 45% of all deaths in children under the age of five.
- In Africa over 2500 children die each day.
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Countries affected by famine
- The countries mainly affectedby famine are in Asia and Africa.
- In Africa the part which is affected the most is the East.
- The countries affected are Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia.
- In central East Africa the countries affected are Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi.
- In Asia famine affects the underdeveloped countries like North Korea, Nepal, India, Pakistan, China and Timor Leste.
- The reasons for this is these countries are poor, at war or revovering from war, drought affected or has lots of crop failures.
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Famine is impossible to stop because there are too many starving communities in the world. We can help stop lots of people in poor countries from dying from famine. If everyone in the world donated $1 to charity imagine how much this could help the poor famine affected people.
THINGS THE GOVERNMENTS ARE DOING TO IMPROVE FOOD SUPPLIES
- They make food security better.
- Buy food for people.
- Buy food crops for people.
- Some make sure not too many refugees come into the country.
- Try to raise money to save communities.
