SHEEPT Factors: Introductory Activity

14 employees of the UN World Food Program were killed between 2008 & 2011. Lack of law enforcement contributed to this.

During war, crops cannot be planted, weeded or harvested. 

Kenya is battling its worst locust outbreak in 70 years. 

48 million people rely on the Mekong Basin for their food supply. On the river’s journey, it is dammed for electricity.

Hyperinflation has rendered salaries worthless in Venezuela.    

Every day more than 6000 people are displaced in Syria. 

About 15% of Brazil’s total domestic product comes from biofuels. 

The city of Asmara in Ethiopia has tripled in size in the last 20 years and sprawls across previously prime farmland. 

In Zambia, less than 4% of the rural population has access to electricity. 

Drought and subsequent famine brought food insecurity to more than 13 million people in the Horn of Africa.

Ongoing conflict in southern Somalia made it difficult for aid agencies to deliver food. 

Changing tastes in China are increasing the demand for foods such as meat, which require more water to be produced.