Study Guide for Section 1

 

1.  Which age segment of the population suffers disproportionately from hunger and malnutrition?  Explain.  Is this morally acceptable?

 

 

 

2.  How is maternal health related to poverty, hunger, and malnutrition throught the maternal life cycle?  Explain.

 
 

3.  Explain why diarrhea leads to dehydration death in many cases in the developing world.

 

 

 

 

4.  According to Food Insecurity in the World 2005, how does hunger and malnutrition contribute to  HIV/AIDS succeptibility?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

5.  According to Food Insecurity in the World 2005, what are some personal and societal side effects of hunger and poverty?  Explain.

 

 

 

 

6.  Why is hunger associated with poverty, especially in  rural areas of the developing world?  Explain.

7.  Worldwide, who is more likely to be illiterate, women or men, and why?

8. What are two factors that have been shown to correlate with children being out of school?  Explain.

 

 9.  From the news story, explain how the potato may be able to relieve world hunger.

10.   Indicate the four Millennium Development Goals you think are most important and why.

11.  According to the news story, what 2 Millennium Development Goals will not be achieved in Nigeria?  What are some other problems facing Nigeria? Explain.

12.  Explain the Food First Myth 1 argument: hunger is not due to a scarcity of food.

 

 

13.  In World Hunger 12 myths what are the arguments you find most and least compelling?  Explain.

14.  From the video, what does Frances Moore Lappe stress is the root of the problem in the developing world?  Explain.

 

15.  How might the famines in Ireland or India have been less severe if they had not been colonies?  Explain.

 

 

16.  How have wars exacerbated famine problems in Africa?  Explain and give 2 examples.

     17.  What economic segment of the population suffers disproportionately in natural disasters, war, and famine?  Why?




     18.  How can policy in support of a political ideology sometimes result in famine and starvation? Give two examples.

 

 
     19.  From the videos on Armenian Genocide and the Nazi Death Camps, why do you think so many of the corpses were extremely thin?  Is this morally acceptable?

 

  

     20.  From the video on Genocide in Darfur, what is the political, economic, and cultural basis of that conflict?  Explain.

 

 
 
     21.  From the 2008 News story on Darfur, what has happened to food aid efforts in Darfur?  Explain.

 

 

     22.  What five disaster relief policies do Leathers and Foster recommend to avoid famine and starvation?

 

 
      23.  What is micronutrient malnutrition?  What are the three most limiting micronutrients? 

 

      24.  What is protein energy malnutrition?  What are the two most extreme forms? Explain.

 

  
      25.  Explain the difference in the causes and symptoms of kwashiorkor and marasmus.

 

      26.   What are complementing proteins?  Explain specifically what is being complemented, and give an example.

      27.   What are the causes of global overnutrition, and how can overnutrition and undernutrition coexist in the same country?  Explain.

 

      28.  Explain the difference between RDA and EAR and why these two nutritional standards exist.

 
 

      29.   Is hunger and malnutrition morally acceptable?  Why or why not?

 

30.  Oxfam states that 1/3 of the world’s grain and ½ of its fish go to feed animals for meat production in wealthy countries.  Is this morally acceptable?  Explain.