Food Flashcards
1
Q
What is meant by the double burden of malnutrition?
A
Malnutrition includes starvation (when people lack nutrients due to a lack of food) as well as obesity (when people eat high calorie foods low in nutrients)
2
Q
What was the average daily calorie intake per person in the 1960s?
A
2300
3
Q
What is the average daily calorie intake per person in the present day?
A
2900
4
Q
Why has calorie intake increased since the 1960s?
A
- improved technology
- climate change may have increased growing seasons
- globalisation; allows trade and food/labour to move
- MDGs; reduced poverty and hunger from 15% to 10.5%
5
Q
How many people were still undernourished in 2018?
A
800 million
6
Q
How has food production changed in LICs?
A
- increased agricultural outputs
- technology improvements
- green revolution and technology improvements
7
Q
How is food production changing in HICs?
A
- importing more food from elsewhere
- decrease in agricultural industry (sector shift)
- less red meat
8
Q
What % of the World’s population is overweight?
A
39%
9
Q
Why has obesity increased?
A
- cheap, convenient food
- sedentary lifestyles
- can afford more of these foods
10
Q
What % of the World’s population is obese?
A
13%
