Global Nutrition
"Global nutrition": not merely comparisons of nutritional status between nations, but …
… how
nutritional patterns across the planet are impacted by:
worldwide exchange, trade, & globalization
on goods, personnel, money, corporations, ideas
Go to Online Learning
Go to Trends in World Hunger
Go to Aid
that works & aid that doesn't
Roadmap to a world without hunger: problems & solutions
Slides
from lectures
1st
half of Global Nutrition
Preparing for the Midterm
As you think about the midterm, we recommend you pay attention to
1) Enterprises and innovations that are making a difference to world hunger and malnutrition
2) Misconceptions about aid, what kinds of aid work or don't work, and why
3) Factors that increase the likelihood of poverty and hunger in a region
4) Reasons why the MDGs are or are not on track
1) Watch the video by Hans Rosling the Swedish Global Health statistician. It's a talk to US State Department (April 2009). Click here
Understand the following points as Rosling makes them:
a) The out of date picture accepted by most professors and public health experts
b) Development often begins after independence. Can you see why?
c) Better nutrition & better health can begin before economic development. What's needed? The government must makes it a priority
d) Those earning less than $1 per day: cannot lift themselves onto the development ladder. Free trade, free enterprise, microloans, even gifts of money are useless. What's needed to become self-sustaining? For the poorest it's not cash!
e) Between $1 and $10 per day: microcredit can be helpful
f) Above $10: people can start to take responsibility for themselves, educate their children and plan for emergencies
2) Practice Questions for the Midterm
These contain concepts that
will be required of you in the MidTerm examination.
To re-test your knowledge click here. (If the
are on the midterm, they may be worded differently to test your understanding)
To see the answers and explanations, click here.
3) Population growth and nutrition self-study tool (20-30 minutes):
Try out the new Google public data link on world population
Bring up a Google search and enter: world under 5 mortality
Click on link to the first site in the list: Mortality rate under 5 World
Use it as a sand-box to play in for 5 min. You could check to see how many babies unnecessarily die before age 5 in the US and Canada, by using the Scandinavian countries as a reference
Now your homework: First display (say) Finland as a reference; then
Bring up on the screen the data for two poor nations Zambia and Pakistan. Do the same for the four BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, predicted to be the world's economic engine in this the 1st century of this new millennium). See what conclusions you can draw regarding global infant nutrition.
Want more? If you are finding this interesting, Google: world fertility rate, and do something similar. Think whether this changes anything.
4) Optional if you are interested in hearing more from the agents of change, for your own information beyond the course – what they are saying & doing – here are some links.
Nelson
Mandela(2:06 min)
Make poverty history The need to pressure governments to keep their promises
Yunus
Muhammad (2006 Nobel Prize winner)
5 Minute interview with Yunus Muhammad on how he started MicroCredit
1 hour talk at UCSD on the Grameen enterprizes
Jeffrey
Sachs & Angelina Jolie
Tour of Millennium Village in Kenya 1
Tour of Millennium Village in Kenya 2
Kumi
Naidoo (South Africa)
Ending hunger together Don't underestimate your ability to bring about change