WHY WE CHOSE ZAMBIA
Zambia is ranked 150th out of 169 on the Human Development Index and has recently been reclassified as a lower middle income country by the World Bank. Sixty percent of people in Zambia live below the poverty line and 42 percent are considered to be extremely poor.
Poverty and food insecurity are widespread in both rural and urban areas, and the country remains extremely vulnerable to recurring natural disasters, including floods, drought and animal disease. By educating this country and their people we believe we can contribute towards the production of food and reduce hunger.
ISSUE
795 million people in the world do not have enough food to sustain a healthy life. That's about one in nine people on earth. The majority of the world's starved people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished. Poverty, armed conflict, environmental overload and discrimination are the main causes of chronic hunger around the world. Zambia currently has one of the highest amount of undernourished people in the world, with approximately 48 percent. The number of undernourished people has doubled in the past 20 years to around 7.4 million people. Around about 40 percent of children under the age of five are suffering from stunting and 6 percent from wasting, or are progressively becoming weaker. Malnutrition seems to be found slightly more in boys, and incredibly higher rates among poor and rural children.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
The main causes of food shortage in Zambia are: high vulnerability to drought , rainfall patterns having significant changes , rural communities and smallholder farmers don’t have much access to agricultural inputs , high micronutrient deficiencies due to micronutrient intake being dependent on seasons. Also most undernourished people live on less that $1.25 a day. This is nowhere near enough to purchase a substantial amount of food.
Zambia is ranked 150th out of 169 on the Human Development Index and has recently been reclassified as a lower middle income country by the World Bank. Sixty percent of people in Zambia live below the poverty line and 42 percent are considered to be extremely poor.
Poverty and food insecurity are widespread in both rural and urban areas, and the country remains extremely vulnerable to recurring natural disasters, including floods, drought and animal disease. By educating this country and their people we believe we can contribute towards the production of food and reduce hunger.
ISSUE
795 million people in the world do not have enough food to sustain a healthy life. That's about one in nine people on earth. The majority of the world's starved people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished. Poverty, armed conflict, environmental overload and discrimination are the main causes of chronic hunger around the world. Zambia currently has one of the highest amount of undernourished people in the world, with approximately 48 percent. The number of undernourished people has doubled in the past 20 years to around 7.4 million people. Around about 40 percent of children under the age of five are suffering from stunting and 6 percent from wasting, or are progressively becoming weaker. Malnutrition seems to be found slightly more in boys, and incredibly higher rates among poor and rural children.
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
The main causes of food shortage in Zambia are: high vulnerability to drought , rainfall patterns having significant changes , rural communities and smallholder farmers don’t have much access to agricultural inputs , high micronutrient deficiencies due to micronutrient intake being dependent on seasons. Also most undernourished people live on less that $1.25 a day. This is nowhere near enough to purchase a substantial amount of food.