Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

An 18 month girl, weighing 14 pounds, is treated by a US Army medical team in Paktya province, Afghanistan. December 2007

Source: Public Domain-US Army

Child Victim of the Holodomor Famine in the Ukraine, 1933

Source: Public Domain

A picture of a starving woman from the Leningrad Blockade during World War II.

The passage roughly translates to "Alimentary dystrophy (starvation sickness). Failure of the general nourishment of the organism as a result of a long period of undernourishment, when food does not comprise a sufficient quantity of calories in relation to the energy used. After the war, dystrophy received another, unofficial name, "The Leningrad Sickness"

Source: Creative Commons (George Shuklin)

Engraving, "Giving Out Corn to the People, During a Season of Scarcity." Chinese officials distributing famine relief during the early 19th century

Source: Public Domain

A sketch of Bridget O'Donnel, who suffered significant illness along with her children during the Irish Potato Famine in 1849

Source: Public Domain

A front and side view of an obese male teenager (5'10", 322 pounds)

Source: released into the Public Domain

A McDonald's Restaurant in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, reflecting the spread of Western foods and dietary practices

Source: GNU License (user haitham alfalah)

Italian 2 euro commemorative coin showing the World Food Programme, 2004

Source: Public Domain

Children and a nurse at a Nigerian orphanage in the 1960s. Some of the children show signs of kwashiorkor, a protein deficiency disease

Source: Center for Disease Control

Commonly grown food around the world, rich in naturally complex and simple carbohydrates

Source: Pubic Domain- Department of Agriculture

A cattle slaughterhouse, where the new needs of meat consumption are met

Source: Public Domain-released by Dr. Temple Grandin

"The Corn Harvest" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

Source: Public Domain

Water Buffalo plowing rice fields near Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia

Source: GNU License (Merbabu)

Bus running on soybean biodiesel, one of the alternative ways that agricultrual prodcuts are diverted from food uses

Source: U.S. Department of Energy

Organic cultivation of mixed vegetables in California, a new trend in agricultural production

Source: Public Domain

Tractor plowing an alfalfa field in 1921

Source: Public Domain

A Fred Meyer in Portland, Oregon illustrating the usual food choices in a supermarket in the United States

Source: Licensed by http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyza/49545547

A young Nigerian child in the late 1960s suffering from a protein deficiency disease, kwashiorkor, after the Nigerian/Biafran War

Source: Center for Disease Control

A collection of meat-stuffs for human consumption

Source: Public Domain

A Bangledeshi man working a rice field

Source: USAID/Federal Government

A John Deere tractor at harvest

Source: Creative Commons

A propaganda poster from the "Great Leap Forward" in China, designed to make grain production look like shooting rockets

Source: Public Domain

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Feast and Famine: The Global Food Crisis

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