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Fall 2014

Resource Economics 121

Hunger in a Global Economy

Preparing Your Case 1

Post your Work in Posting Area on M oodle by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 9/16No late work will be accepted.

Bring a copy of your posting to class on Wednesday, 9/17 for Group Day 1.Bring a laptop (if you have one) to capture group work on Group Day 1.

General Gui dance on Preparing Your Case:

You must include full citations to any sources used (e.g., websites, including those provided inthis preparation sheet). Cite sources within the text [e.g., Food safety has been improving withinthe United States (Caswell 2013).] and then provide a reference list at the end of your postingusing any standard referencing format.

You will be posting your work to Moodle as a Word or pdf file.

Case 1:

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Write a paragraph introducing you.

Information and Data Sources Notes:

Your Luck of the Draw is determined by your ribbon color on your syllabus.

For your data source use: 2014 World Population Data Sheet.It is available on Moodle.

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If your country group is Asia Except China & India, report the populationnumber given in the Luck of the Draw Table 2014 posted on our Moodle in thetop section in the middle, and use the life expectancy, GNI PPP per capita (US$),

and percent the population urban for Asia from the 2014 World Population DataSheet.

Your paragraph should introduce you by:a.

Telling your country group or country (from the Luck of the Draw).b.

Presenting key demographic data for your country group as a whole or country (in case ofChina or India):

i.

Total population.ii.

Life expectancy at birth (years) for both sexes, males, and females.iii.

GNI PPP (gross national income in purchasing power parity) per capita (US$).(Review the definition of GNI PPP shown on the World Population Data Sheetand be sure you understand it.)

iv.

Percent of the Population Urban.

2.

Build a Diet on a Limited Budget.

Information and Data Sources Notes:

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Many of the billion or so people in the world at the bottom of the economic ladder live onless than $1.25 per day (about $450 a year) and spend about 80% (about $360) of theirmeager incomes on food.

To build your diet, assume that you are a poor person with $360 to spend on food peryear.

Your diet must include these foods each day. (These are your dietary requirements.)o

1 pound grain (wheat, millet, or rice) (approx. 2 cups dry=4 cups cooked)o

1/3 pound lentils (protein source) (approx. cup cooked)o 3 cents worth of salt per dayo 2 cent worth of spices per day

You can spend the rest of your food budget on other items as desired within the budgetlimit of $360.

In your local market the food prices are:

Build, present, and discuss your diet:a)

Build a diet for a year for yourself knowing that you can spend $360, have the dietaryrequirements shown above, and face the prices listed above. Present you diet showing:

i.

The amount in pounds (or other unit of measure) of each food product you intendto consume for the year.

ii.

How much money you will spend on each food product during the year.iii.

The total cost of your diet for the year (this should be very close to $360).b)

In a paragraph or two, describe the reasoning you used to put together your diet. Forexample, what strategy did you use to insure that you consumed a sufficient amount ofgrain and the other dietary requirements of lentils, salt, and spices? How and why did youchoose to allocate to other foods the money, if any, you had left over after meeting thedaily requirements?

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When you complete your diet, please analyze it in a paragraph indicating how:i.

Nutritionally adequate the diet would be. (I recommended that you consult awebsite such as http://www.ChooseMyPlate.gov to help you evaluate your diet

nutritionally.If you set up a profile, you can choose track food & activityand then choose My Combo to enter and analyze your average day'sdiet.)

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How satisfied you would be with a diet of the type you are able to buy on thisbudget.

Commodity Price per Pound

Wheat (unground) $0.50

Millet (unground) $0.35

Rice $0.60

Lentils $0.75

Potatoes $0.70Vegetables $0.75

Fruit $1.00

Milk (1 lb=1 pint) $0.50

Meat $3.00

Sugar $0.45

Price per Day

Salt $0.03

Spices $0.02

Price per Cup

Tea (with milk and sugar) $0.25

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Now, decide how you would adjust your diet if the price of three grain staple products rises significantly,as happened for many poor people in 2010-2011. Say the prices per pound of these grains will increase by15% to the prices shown below:

Wheat (unground) $0.58Millett $0.41Rice $0.70

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How would you change your diet if food prices moved in this direction? Indicatewhat you would consume more of, what you would consume less of, and by howmuch (lbs. or other unit of measure and dollars per year).

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Why would you change your diet in the direction you indicate? What would youexpect the impact of these changes to be on your overall nutritional status?