Global Nutrition

We have a roadmap to a world without hunger

Where are we headed?

The ugly

We know what works?

It wasn’t an accident

How did we get here?

Where are we now?

Can anything help? Yes

Stuffed & starved

The bad

We keep doing what

we know doesn’t work?

The good

Most of you will see hunger in museums!

We are part of the problem

1 billion hungry (800m); 1 billion overweight

Minefield Experts are blindNothing in text

Where to find information?Yunus Muhammad - Creating a world without poverty

Jeffrey Sachs - The end of poverty

Dambisa Moyo - Dead Aid (she’s against aid to the poor)

Frances Moore Lappé - Diet for a Small Planet

Raj Patel - Stuffed & Starved

Paul Collier - Bottom Billion

Loaned $76 to poor– Nobel Prize in 2006

Voice for poorest of poor. Prev World Bank trouble-shooter

“Creates dependence” Goldman-Sachs 2001-)

Economist: discovery of resources is the worst!

If any game of chance such unequal results

Rules of economics rob the most needy of food

1.TF In the poor nations almost everyone is hungry; in the remainder almost everyone gets an adequate diet

2.TF Worldwide, more people have their lives shortened by overeating than by starvation

3.TF When poor nations now find a place on the ladder of development, they develop slower than rich nations did when they enjoyed their phase of development?

4.TF Most Canadian specialists in global health understand how the distribution of poverty & hunger are changing?

5.TF Health & nutrition benefits are possible only after economic development occurs

6.TF People in regions of extreme hunger & poverty desperately need money

7.TF 50% of children in the US are currently so poor that they must rely on charity for their meals?

Quick quiz – two of the following are T

Quick answers1. F In some nations hunger is the norm; in the remainder,

an adequate diet is the norm2. T Worldwide, more people have their lives shortened by

overeating than by starvation 3. F In the present era, when poor nations find a place on

the ladder of development, they develop slowly compared with the rich nations in their phase of development?

4. F Most Canadian specialists in global health understand the how the distribution of poverty and hunger are changing?

5. F Health & nutrition benefits inevitably occurs after economic development rather than before

6. F People in regions of extreme hunger & poverty desperately need money

7. T 50% of children in the US are currently so poor that they must rely on charity for their meals?

Should you care?The world produces enough food for everyone, yet some have much less than they need while others have much more than they need

SFU Senate

Southern Africa is a microcosm

George W Bush: “Terrorism is rooted in the frustration of people pushed by oppression beyond the point of endurance”

We are ethical beings. We want our lives to count

Yunus

Roadmap to a world without hunger- where are we?

-what’s happening?what works & what doesn’t?

Innovations that makes a difference

Grameen family of social enterprises

The Kings of Philanthropy

The Millennium Village project

Influential voices for change …

Scientists & students who are making a difference

The Millennium Development Goals

You! ...

$7 can deliver an insecticide treated mosquito net

Don’t believe 1 person can make a difference …

MGH students

Web resources & GHEC

Roadmap to a world without hungerThe big lie: “Aid doesn’t work”20 nations pledged 1974 to donate 0.7% of GNP

to Aid. “No benefit! 1 billion are still starving”

4+2 nations did meet pledge: 800m now starving

Truth: can you guess?

was 1600m ⇒ 800m spared!!

Only 4 nations delivered!

22 renewed pledge 2001 Broke it again in 2002

:^( US pays < ¼ of promise

Canada < ½

Well done? No!

To a few: “well done”. To many: “800m still to go”

Misconceptions about aid ...

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False: “Most of the aid money goes into the Swiss bank a/c’s of corrupt African dictators”

“Aid creates dependence & impedes self-sufficiency”“Despite all the aid $, problems are getting worse” &

“It’s their own fault”The truth: Very few leaders are corrupt by ...

Well planned aid targets capacity-building & self-sufficiency

Most MDGs are being met, to the extent that rich countries honour their commitments. Blaming the bonsai tree.

...US standards: when they are, bribes come from where?

Ottawa, Washington, World Bank, WTO, free traders

“Let’s put hunger in the museums”Yunus Muhammad

Hans Rosling Global Health statistician Talk to US State Department 2009

Above $2 per day microcredit, below $1 emergency aid

Is this just a pipe-dream?

the evidence using gapminder

1974: 1,600,000,000extreme poverty

& hunger 2008: 800,000,000

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