Lesson 5

Data Response – Four ways to feed the world Pg. 56-58

A solemn
promise or
To confirm the validity of undertaking
something previously
established
A summit meeting
(or just summit) is With the help of
an international
meeting of heads of the Consultative Group
state or government,
on International
usually with Agricultural
considerable media
exposure, tight Research (which is a
security, and a global partnership
prearranged agenda.
that unites international

organizations in the
Chronic means a management
problem continuing
of food globally), the
for a long time
world leaders

are going to meet up

and solve the problem of

hunger
FAO refers to
the Food and
Agriculture
organization of
the UN
According to Mrs D. ,the FAO of the UN decided to

Mrs. Y addresses the problem of End hunger completely but the delegates did not accept.

Hunger in terms of redoubling food production. Instead they kept focusing on their previous (incomplete)

She proposes that poor/underdeveloped countries should be
taught how to improve their farming skills/techniques.
And thus they will provide food to their population and also
earn a living for themselves and have money to buy food.
Goal of ending chronic hunger from 20% to 10 % in
developing countries. Mrs D. seems quite pessimistic of
this goal as she mentions the issue of global warming

which might not help in farming at and hence in reducing

hunger in

developing countries.
 These are the areas of improvement that the CGIAR proposed to end hunger and

give way to better food production.

The first point raised in the

Programme is about the
good use of water and the
expansion of irrigated
areas. But the issue raised
They propose to stop here is that aquifers (a layer
ploughing the land as of rock, send and earth that
allows water to pass
it is expensive, it
through it and are used in
further damages the
irrigation are drying now as
land and releases a result of global warming.
greenhouse gases.

Access to high-yielding
seeds is only worth-while
only when the farmers
know how to use it. And
even if their crops do grow
the food, African do not
have the markets to sell
their food for extra profits.

Enhancing the crops

which could yield
more food might help
Africa to come out of
hunger more than
what irrigating the
crops would.

Don’t you think

Possible
Africa has a great
ability in helping to
end global hunger?

Think about its vast

land to grow crops

If they get new

technologies,
investment from
foreign countries and
also the expertise
from developed
nations, African can
help in reducing
hunger for its own
country as well as
help for the nearby
poor countries as