Let`s think about food:
Write!
1. During your spring holiday, choose 1 day. Write the date here: ____________________.
On that day, write down all of the food you eat.
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
Snacks:
2. Who helped to grow, process, deliver, and prepare the food before you ate it?
farmer
you
Answer:
3.
a. What kind of problems could stop you from having food to eat?
b. What would happen if you couldn`t get food?
c. If these problems happened, what would you need to do to get food?
d. Would people in other countries be able to solve these problems? Why? Why not?
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ulary
Vocab
4.
a. What does security mean in Japanese?
b. What do you think food security means?
c. The prefix “in” means “not”. What do you think food insecurity means?
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Think!
5.
a. Write the names of countries that you think are food secure.
b. Write the names of countries that you think are food insecure.
6. Why did you choose these countries?
food secure
u
Vocab
lary:
food insecure
1. What does nourishment mean in Japanese?
2. The prefix “under” means “below”. What do you think
undernourished means?
3. What problem does an undernourished person have?
Look and Learn:
Look at the World Hunger Map and answer these questions:
1. What two regions have the highest percentage of undernourished people?
2. What are the regions that have extremely low percentages of undernourished people?
3. What words can you use to describe the countries in the undernourished regions? (think of
economic, social, geographical and environmental conditions)
4. What words can you use to describe the countries in the regions with extremely low
undernourishment?
5. Look at your words. What are some of the causes of food insecurity?
6. Look at your words. What helps countries become food secure?
7. Find your country on the map. What is the percentage of undernourished people? Do you
think your country is food secure or food insecure?
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FOOD SECURITY QUIZ - test yourself!
1. More than (¼, ⅓, ½) of the world`s population lives in countries that can`t produce or import
enough food to feed their people.
2. More than (⅓, ½, ¾) of all children don`t get enough nourishment.
3. (1, 6, 10) million children die from causes connected to malnutrition (日本語で：
)every
year.
4. Put these words in the right order to make 1 sentence:
Most
world
hungry people
developing
the
live in
_________________________________________________________,
in the
34 million
but
developed world.
live
_________________________________________________________.
5. Poverty, health, the environment, gender inequality, disasters, conflicts and population growth
affect ___________________ in many countries.
6. There are some countries that are free from hunger and malnutrition. True / False
7. There is enough food in the world for everyone to have enough to eat, but it is distributed
unequally.
True / False
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life
What is food security?
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eop
p
nutritious
Choose the right words to make a definition of food
security.
Food security means that all ___________, all of the
____________ have physical and economic
_____________ to enough _______________ and
_______________ food for an active and healthy
__________.
e
time saf
access
A country is food secure when:
Match the underlined word with the meaning.
• it is distributed locally and is
A country is food secure when:
affordable to all people
1. Food is available:
• each family has a good supply and
2. Food is accessible:
variety of food that can be prepared
safely
3. Food is used in the best way:
•
enough good -quality, safe food is
produced or imported
What happens when people don`t have food security?
Think of an adjective for each effect of food insecurity.
Effects of food insecurity on teenagers and adults:
•
•
_________ health
__________ life expectancy
Effects of food insecurity on very ________ children:
•
•
•
________ weight
__________ height
____________ physical and mental ability
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How do poverty, health, water and environment, gender, disasters, conflicts and
population growth affect food security? :
To help you understand, read the sentences below. After you read each sentence decide if it is
most connected to poverty, health, water and environment, gender, disasters, conflicts or
population growth. Write each sentence in one of the boxes on page 6.
More and more productive land cannot be used because of environmental damage.
Farmers stop working in order to fight in conflicts.
When people don`t get enough nourishment they become sick and weak. They can`t work or produce
food.
Women can`t get enough knowledge about nutrition, food safety and disease prevention. As a result,
they can`t improve the way they use food to feed their families.
Cities are getting bigger because more people are moving there. Productive land is used to build new
houses and buildings.
Poor people don`t have enough money to produce or buy healthy food.
Productive land, food that is being grown and food and seeds that are in storage are destroyed by wars.
Poor farmers have small farms. They don`t have enough money to use technology to help them grow
more food for their families or to sell for income.
Hungry and malnourished mothers give birth to unhealthy babies. Unhealthy babies become unhealthy
adults.
Women have lower levels of education, training, land ownership and income than men. As a result, it is
difficult for them to improve their access to and use of food.
When there are wars, farmers leave their farms to go somewhere safe so, farming stops and no food is
grown.
Countries that have don`t have enough water or have environmental damage must import most of their
food. This increases the cost which affects poor people.
Unsafe food and water cause poor nutrition, disease and sometimes death.
Food, seeds and animals are destroyed or eaten by soldiers during conflicts.
Food production uses a lot of water. If a country doesn`t have enough water, it can`t produce enough
food. This is a problem because there are water shortages in many countries.
In order to grow food to feed people in expanding cities, land which is far away must be used. This
increases the cost of producing and transporting the food.
Productive land cannot be used after wars until it is cleared and made safe again.
Productive land, food that is being grown and food and seeds that are in storage are destroyed by
floods, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes etc.
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Why is there food insecurity?
Poverty:
Health:
Water and Environment:
Gender:
Population Growth:
Disasters:
Conflicts:
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VOCABULARY QUIZ - test yourself!
There are many new words you must learn in order to understand our MUN topic.
Remember this: Learning more words = Understanding more easily and quickly. Draw
a line from each new word to it`s meaning in English.
a. When land can be used for growing food it`s called ___
b. When a person has poor nutrition caused by bad food,
not a good balance of food or disease it`s called ___
1. food secure
2. food insecure
c. When you have enough money to buy something it`s ___
3. undernourished
d. When people can grow or buy enough nutritious food at
any time so that they are healthy, they are ___
4. malnutrition
e. Typhoons, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes and droughts
are all examples of ___
5. nutritious
f. When something is getting bigger, it is ___
6. affordable
g. When something is healthy and provides enough vitamins
it is ___
7. accessible
8. conflict
h. When people are hungry and can`t enough nutritious food
they are ___
i. Fighting, disagreements and wars are examples of ___
9. natural disasters
10. expanding
j. A word that means the same as give out, spread or to
deliver something: ___
11. distribute
k. When you can get, find or use something it is ___
12. productive land
l. When a person can`t grow or buy enough food in order to
be healthy and active everyday they are ___
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MAKE A QUIZ - test your classmates!
GOAL: An important part of the MUN is asking questions. If you can write and ask good
questions, debate and discussion will become more interesting.
What to do: Look at the information about food security. What is important? What is
interesting to you? Below, in each box, write 1 thing that you have learned. These will be
your “answers”. Next, write a question for each answer. Use these questions to test your
classmates and find out what they learned about food security.
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