GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: World Food Summit, Cartogram, United Nations Special Committee On Palestine
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26: feast and famine: geography of food. Famine = largest humanitarian crisis in history of un. Stephen o"brien told un council: without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply starve to death . 20 million people in risk in nigeria, somalia, south sudan, yemen: in each case, the causes are drought and internal conflict. Over 6 million people face famine in somalia. Drought from 2011 (drought and war) affected 12. 5 million people in the region. Global warming along with the strong la ni a resulted in precipitation levels of only 30% of normal levels over 2 rainy seasons: south somalia, south sudan, east ethiopia and north east kenya were affected. Pastoralists (sheep/cattle/goat farmers raise money from their milk) Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life (world food summit 1996)
