Background on the Project
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This Teaching Resource on World Hunger and Agriculture is a partnership between The Council and Bread for the World Institute with funding by the US Agency for International Development, to bring comprehensive instruction on world hunger issues to high school agriculture and social studies students.
In September 1998, The Council began this initiative that will bring in-depth world hunger issues into US agriculture classrooms. The instructional materials packet will focus on world hunger issues from the perspective of agriculture and related disciplines, allowing students to learn more about agriculture's role in combating hunger around the world. Bread for the World Institute, a Washington, DC based group has many years investigating hunger issues around the world and serves as an ideal partner for The Council on this project. Approximately one billion people around the world live in households earning less than the equivalent of one US dollar per day, and according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, more than 800 million people are chronically malnourished. The complexities of production capacity, technology, transportation, economics and political issues all come in to play in the world hunger crisis. The instructional materials will break down the issues into separate components to help students better understand these wide-ranging, but interconnected issues affecting the most fundamental problem facing agriculture in the world. For more information on this project please contact Coleman Harris at the National Council for Agricultural Education. |
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