The world current produces enough food to feed 8 Billion people.

So why are one billion people hungry?

Global Grain Production

Food Balance Sheet (2005) From fao.org

Commodity Production Food supply (kcal/cap/day)

% food supply

Million mt

Needed per day/personAll

21502761

All vegetable 2287 83All animal 474 17

Cereals 2048 1289 47Starchy roots 726 148 5Sugars 1567 222 8Pulses 61 55 2Oil crops 462 55 2Vegetable oils 124 262 9Vegetables 865 77 3Fruits 524 83 3Coffee, tea 16 6 0Alcohol 265 66 2Meat 258 217 8Eggs 61 33 1Milk 644 126 5Fish 133 30 1other 89 3

Where do the grains go?Where do the grains go?

What is happening to the world’s food supply ?

• A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year.

That's about one-third of total edibles produced for humans.

Global Meat Consumption

Biofuels

Biofuels = Grain Consumption

Food Aid, Food Security, Food Justice

Give a person a fish – Sharing food

Access to the pond – Global food “rules”

Teach a person to fish – Improving Access to food

• distributed according to family need – based on UN’s WFP daily ration

• usually whole grains

• school feeding programs

•food can also be used as a wage good in food for work

• rations for IDPs & refugees

Food Aid

•necessities such as water jugs, cooking pots and blankets maybe supplied by other church resources

tools & seeds (locally appropriate)

Mongolia

Food Security

education

Food For Work

water conservation(wells, reservoirs, irrigation)

reforestation & soil conservation building or rebuilding of community infrastructure

Food Justice

•MDG• Food Aid Convention•Right To Food•Climate Change•Foreign Aid•Aid For Agriculture

Russian Drought 2010

Pakistan Flood 2010

Pakistan Flood 2010

CFGB member response

Pakistan Floods 2011

2011 East Africa Famine

Kenyan Refugee Camp

Famine relief

Sand Dams

Conservation Farming

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