The IB Geography specification calls for students to study a FAMINE.
Food security is also a global issue and food features in many GCSE and GCE specifications. Famine is often linked closely with drought, land degradation, climate change / weather patterns other than the usual / El Nino and conflict: all geographical topics.
This TELEGRAPH article describes the key issues involved in defining what is meant by a famine. There is a 5 point scale for food emergencies that is used by the UN, and a Famine is no. 5 on the scale.
There are some issues with the definition of a famine which are described in the article - there is some link with the rates of mortality in a region which are statistical.
Don't forget that Twitter is one of the best ways of getting regular updates on the situation in the Horn of Africa. The World Food Programme @WFP has regular updates. They have been tweeting the stories of some of the arrivals of people who have been heading for the camp of Dadaab.
To discover more about the camp, there is a detailed illustrated FOCUS ON DADAAB booklet which has been produced by Medecins sans Frontieres (link goes to a 3.7 Mb PDF download)
Below is a FLICKR slideshow of images tagged "Dabaab"
Just as I was finishing my research on this theme, Ben Hennig added yet another incredibly useful map, and a sobering and informative commentary too) to his VIEWS OF THE WORLD website. Click for biggery...
Map above has been created by Benjamin D. Hennig and is property of the Sasi Research Group (University of Sheffield). We welcome the use of our maps under the Creative Commons conditions; please contact us for further details – we also appreciate a notification if you used our maps somewhere else. High resolution and customized maps are available on request.
As Ben says, you can change this map by visiting the UNICEF website...
You can also guarantee a meal is provided for someone by completing THIS QUIZ
I finish this blog post with some of the raw footage that was released yesterday by the WFP of the reality of the situation facing tens of thousands of people currently...
And a final thought from Ben Hennig's blog post....
Food security is also a global issue and food features in many GCSE and GCE specifications. Famine is often linked closely with drought, land degradation, climate change / weather patterns other than the usual / El Nino and conflict: all geographical topics.
This TELEGRAPH article describes the key issues involved in defining what is meant by a famine. There is a 5 point scale for food emergencies that is used by the UN, and a Famine is no. 5 on the scale.
There are some issues with the definition of a famine which are described in the article - there is some link with the rates of mortality in a region which are statistical.
Don't forget that Twitter is one of the best ways of getting regular updates on the situation in the Horn of Africa. The World Food Programme @WFP has regular updates. They have been tweeting the stories of some of the arrivals of people who have been heading for the camp of Dadaab.
To discover more about the camp, there is a detailed illustrated FOCUS ON DADAAB booklet which has been produced by Medecins sans Frontieres (link goes to a 3.7 Mb PDF download)
Below is a FLICKR slideshow of images tagged "Dabaab"
Just as I was finishing my research on this theme, Ben Hennig added yet another incredibly useful map, and a sobering and informative commentary too) to his VIEWS OF THE WORLD website. Click for biggery...
Map above has been created by Benjamin D. Hennig and is property of the Sasi Research Group (University of Sheffield). We welcome the use of our maps under the Creative Commons conditions; please contact us for further details – we also appreciate a notification if you used our maps somewhere else. High resolution and customized maps are available on request.
As Ben says, you can change this map by visiting the UNICEF website...
You can also guarantee a meal is provided for someone by completing THIS QUIZ
I finish this blog post with some of the raw footage that was released yesterday by the WFP of the reality of the situation facing tens of thousands of people currently...
And a final thought from Ben Hennig's blog post....
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