Global Food Security

Question 1

What is the current world population as of July 2018?

Answer 1

7.6 billion

Question 2

What is the world population expected to reach in 2030? 2050? 2100?

Answer 2

8. 6 billion
9. 8 billion
10. 2 billion

Question 3

What is the US population as of July 2018?

Answer 3

328,054,892 (4.5%)

Question 4

What 2 continents have the largest population?

Answer 4

Asia (4.5 B, 59.2%)

Africa (1.29 B, 15.8%)

Question 5

What countries in Asia have the largest population?

Answer 5

China (1.42 B, 18.7%)

India (1.35 B, 17.8%)

Question 6

How quickly is the population of Africa growing?

Answer 6

3.5%

Question 7

What are the malnutrition rates in Africa?

Answer 7

34%

Question 8

What is percent of change in the US population in 2013?

Answer 8

0.7%

Question 9

What age is more than 50% of the population in Uganda?

Answer 9

< 30 years

Question 10

What is needed more with the population increase in Africa?

Answer 10

Animal protein

Question 11

Why is animal protein needed?

Answer 11

It is critical in human nutrition, especially in children and persons living with HIV/AIDS

Question 12

What is the role of livestock in Africa?

Answer 12

Animal resources: a strategic pathway for poverty eradication in Africa

Question 13

What enforces the role of livestock in Africa?

Answer 13

The African Union (Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program)
New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Question 14

What is a major initiative of global food security?

Answer 14

To eradicate hunger through food security

Question 15

What is global food security funded by?

Answer 15

USAID “Feed the Future” Program

Question 16

What are the 4 beneficiaries of Feed the Future?

Answer 16

Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan

Also, Tanzania and Uganda

Question 17

What are the drivers of the livestock movement?

Answer 17

Trade (economists, lawyers- WTO)
Cultural practices- marriage (social-anthropologists)
Religious practices (Horn of Africa/Middle East)
Wars, governance (political scientists)
Pastoralism (agriculturalist)

Question 18

What percent of known human and animal pathogens affecting production, public health, global trade, and biosecurits are residen in Sub-Sahran Africa?

Answer 18

70%

Question 19

What percent of known pathogens are zoonotic?

Answer 19

60%

Question 20

What percent of emerging and re-emerging pathogens are from animals?

Answer 20

75%

Question 21

What percent of pathogens can be used as biothreats?

Answer 21

80%

Question 22

What is the Albertine ecosystem/region?

Answer 22

920 mile long western area of the East African Rift, Uganda, DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania
Biodiversity hotspot

Question 23

What is the animal population of the Albertine ecosystem/region?

Answer 23

Comprises > half of Africa’s birds
40% of Africa’s mammals
20% of its amphibians and plants

Question 24

What has the Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) classified the Albertine ecosystem/region as?

Answer 24

One of the hot spots for emerging pandemics

Question 25

How many independent countries are in Africa?

Answer 25

54

Question 26

What is the population of Ugnada?

Answer 26

44M

Question 27

What is the land mass of Uganda?

Answer 27

236,040 sq km which is 1.9 x bigger than MS

Question 28

What is the water mass of Uganda?

Answer 28

36,330 sq km (18.2%)

Question 29

What are the estimated populations of livestock in Africa?

Answer 29

224 million cattle
447 million goats
34 million equines and camels

Question 30

Where are 60% of Africa’s livestock residing?

Answer 30

East and Central Africa

Question 31

How much do animal resources contribute to the national GDP in the ECA?

Answer 31

90% with Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Kenya sharing the upper percentile of 50-90%

Question 32

In Uganda, what percent is involved in agriculture?

Answer 32

55% GDP

80% of the population

Question 33

What are the main cash commodities in many smallholder mixed farming systems of SS-Africa?

Answer 33

Livestock and livestock products

Question 34

What contributes to more than 67% of the average household income in Uganda?

Answer 34

Animal resources

Question 35

In what households is poverty less common?

Answer 35

Those that rely on livestock

Question 36

What are the production systems in Africa?

Answer 36

Tethering
Communal grazing
Pastoralism
Zero grazing
Wildlife resources and tourism

Question 37

What are the pastoral areas?

Answer 37

Hot and dry
Low rainfall
Migratory

Question 38

What is the problem with dry arid conditions?

Answer 38

Lack of water and grass for livestock

Question 39

What is the importance of livestock to the Karimojong?

Answer 39

Source of prestige, pride, and wealth
Source of food
Source of meat

Question 40

What is the problem with indigenous health care and pastoral beliefs?

Answer 40

Conflict with modern veterinary and human medicine

Question 41

Why is zoonoses a challenge in pastoral communities?

Answer 41

Conditions for their maintenance and spread exist

People live in close proximity with their animals

Question 42

What are advisory services and information to farmers provided by NAADS?

Answer 42

Advisory services delivery and contract supervision
Demonstration to farmers to enhance learning of new technology
Market technology development

Question 43

What are constraints of livestock production as perceived by cattle keepers in Uganda?

Answer 43

Wild animals
Water shortage
Ticks and tick-borne diseases
Other diseases
Squatters
Lack of good pastures
Lack of veterinary services
Abortion