Hunger
Causes of Hunger
Farmland
Facts
Startling Facts
100
how many lives each day are lost because of hunger
What is 30,000 lives?
100
the most compelling reason for world hunger
What is poverty?
100
the amount of acres of farmland lost to development each year
What is 26,000 acres?
100
1 billion translates to how many years
What is 32 years?
100
the amount of products offered by the average American grocery store
What is 40,000 products?
200
How many nations that don't produce enough food to feed their people
What is 54 Nations?
200
name a benefit of buying locally grown food
What is the food is healthier, cheaper, and more natural?
200
how many farms are lost every month in Iowa
What is 100 farms every month?
200
the number of humans that are chronically hungry on the planet
What is 1 billion?
200
the amount of money spent on food by Iowans
What is $8,000,000,0000? That's 8 billion dollars!
300
What is the number of children that die from hunger every year
What is 6 million?
300
name at least three consequences of poverty to world hunger
What is lack of good farmland, lack of fertilizer, lack of pest control, lack of storage, lack of transportation, lack of land, lack of irrigation, poor soil quality, and lack of veterian services to name a few?
300
the amount of farmland the state of Iowa has compared to the world
What is 10% of the world's richest farmland?
300
the number of calories eaten by a billion people each day
What is 1,500 calories?
300
the percentage of calories Americans consume that they don't need
What is 36% more calories than what they need?
400
what is one third
What is the percent of food people in Iowa throw away?
400
how many babies are born each second in the world
What are three babies each second?
400
the amount of time it takes to generate one inch of topsoil
What is 500 years?
400
the amount of time it would take to count to one billion out loud
What is 90 years?
400
the miles traveled for food to reach Iowa tables
What is 1,300 to 1,800 miles?
500
Aprroximately, the percentage of life energy and income spent by poor families and Americans
What is 70% of life energy and income for poor families and 20% of life energy and income for Americans?
500
the difference between hunger and malnutrition
What hunger is not getting enough to eat and malnutrition is not getting food from each of the food groups?
500
the percentage of farmable land on earth
What is 4% of the earth? 96% is not tillable (farmable)
500
out of a dollar the amount of money that is generated from agriculture
What is 25 cents out of a dollar?
500
the percentage of food that comes out of the state of Iowa
What is 80%?
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