Food Around the World

Small business – Big Business

Enough food for 6.5 Billion; but . .
• Obesity is a major health problem in the USA
• People are malnourished and starving in many parts
of the world
• Food deprivation is used by some governments
experiencing civil wars
• Much food aid sent to developing countries or
disaster areas does not reach those most in need due
to corrupt governments
• Underneath all this is the basic fact that humans
need food to live . . . .
• There may be enough food; however, there is a
great disparity in the accessibility of food from
country to country or region to region.
Stung by soaring food prices, angry
Egyptians throng a kiosk selling
government-subsidized bread near
the Great Pyramid at Giza.
A mountain of soybeans from Brazil rises in
the hold of a cargo ship bound for China,
where they will be crushed for cooking oil
and animal feed.
Workers in India's fertile Punjab pull an
overstuffed load of rice stalks to a farm
where they will be used as animal feed.
Bangladesh - A woman sweeps a
harvested rice field, gleaning leftover
grains to feed her family.
Steam rises from rice being processed at a
small mill in Rangpur, in northern
Bangladesh.
Ethiopia - The sorghum porridge at
this refugee camp lacks the protein
and fat needed for an Afari mother
to produce enough milk to breast-
feed her malnourished son. Go to the
next slide to get the full impcat of
the picture.
Continuing a 2,000-year-old tradition, women
harvest rice by hand on the Banaue terraces
in the Philippines.
Skilled fingers separate good seed from bad
at the International Rice Research Institute
in Los Baños, Philippines.
Small portions of rice and boiled beef are all
the dinner Marylyn Tolentino and her family
of seven can afford in their village home near
Manila, Philippines.
One of the world's billion people who survive
on less than a dollar a day, Mahabbat Ali
Sheikh buys rice for his family at the
Shaghata bazaar, in northern Bangladesh.
Great Plains wheat farm in the USA
Farmer’s market in Kenya
Outdoor market in Maracaibo,
Venezuela.
Grocery store in a developed country
Cooking his
Satay Octopus
at the Parap
Outdoor
Market
Restaurant food preparation in a
developed country.
South Sudan
girls pounding
grain to prepare
it for cooking.
Preparing
grain in
factories
(flour mills)
for use in
developed
countries.
Cooking at home in Bangladesh
Cooking at home in a developed country.