Did you know…

Some facts on rice and hunger

  • Over 50% of the people in the world depend upon rice as their staple food!
  • In Asia, poor people in both cities and rural villages spend 1/2 to 3/4 of their incomes on rice and only rice!
  • Both white rice and brown rice are healthy grains to eat. Brown rice has more nutritients than white rice because of the bran shell that surrounds the grain. Milling is the process that provides us with white rice.
  • It is estimated that there are about 140,000 varieties of cultivated rice grown in every country in the world except Antartica!
  • Not only is 90% of the world’s rice grown in Asia, 90% of the rice is also consumed there. It is basic survival food for many.
  • One large mocha and two doughnuts from Tim Horton’s costs around $3.30. That will buy roughly 11 kilograms of rice in Cambodia which can feed a family of five for two days.
  • 852 million people suffer hunger in our world
  • Someone dies every three seconds from a hunger realted cause
  • Everyday more than 16,000 children die from hunger related causes…that’s one every five seconds!
  • 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty of less than $1.00 per day!
  • Canada is one of about 50 countries which are considered industrialized or developed. The combined population of these developed countries is only .09 billion which is less than one sixth of the world’s population
  • Hunger affects the whole world: In economic terms, every year that hunger persists at current levels costs more than 5 million children their lives and costs developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity and earnings.
  • In Canada, 40% of people who receive food from food banks are children.

For these facts and more information on Rice and Global Hunger:

Hunger in Canada

Links for advocacy and resource information

www.cafb-acba.ca