What is food security? And what can be done to help people become food secure? Case Study Teacher's Notes Student Activities Section 1: What is food security? What is meant by food security? Are you a "food secure" person? Give your reasons. Do you live in a "food secure" country? Give your reasons. If you had "food insecurity" and not "food security", how would your life change? Section 2: Is food security a problem? How many people are there in the world? How many do not have enough to eat, ie, how many are food insecure? Where are most of these 820 million people found? What are some countries that make up the developing world? Can you find these on a map of the world? How many of these 820 million live in the developing world? What are some countries that make up the developed world? Can you find these on a map of the world? What is your height and weight now? Have someone draw your outline on a sheet of butcher's paper. Imagine, you grew up suffering from food insecurity. What would be your height and weight if that had been the case? Draw your "food insecure" outline, in a different colour, inside your real outline. Compare the differences. Section 3: How can we understand this problem? Prepare a 'mind map' (or 'word web') that shows and summarises the five main causes of food insecurity. Work in five groups, ie, around six per group. Each group is to select one of the five causes of food insecurity and prepare a 30 second TV news report which explains and dramatises their selection. Section 4: What is being done to help? What can be done to help? 1. Prepare a wordless "mind map", ie, use sketches and numbers, but not words, to explain how Australia plans to spend $1 billion on improving food security for those most in need. Work in pairs to prepare a two minute current affairs TV interview. One of the pair is the interviewer and the other is a minister responsible for spending this $1 billion on improving food security for those most in need. The interviewer is to ask questions about how and why this money is being spent and the minister responds. Where is most of Australia's aim money being spent on direct food security? Why do you think is the case? Section 5: What sort of world do we want? Do you agree with the statement "One hungry person is one too many"? Give your reasons.   Top © Commonwealth of Australia