I recently navigated to the Ending Hunger website, an information and advocacy website that is part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The site has lots of information about hunger in the world, and provides lots of information, links to petitions, and opportunities to get involved.
The Mapping Hunger area of the site has as various visual images about hunger, food security, and other food issues, and I found a recently post with an amazing interactive timeline of food.
Created by the Food for 9 Billion Project, the Food Through the Ages timeline allows you to navigate through the history of food and see some of “the human struggle to put food on the table, from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the 9 billionth human.”
The timeline is broken up visually into separate 5 timelines: Agriculture, Demographics, Health and Nutrition, Hunger, and Politics, so you are able to get an overview of a time period from various perspectives.
I found it interesting that in 1933, the year the Twinkie was first created, there was a famine in the Soviet Union, and the population on the whole was becoming wealthier and more secure, creating a stable population.
I navigated to today, and saw that the last hunger statistic was 925 million people were hungry, and life expectancy overall is 67 years.
You can play with the timeline on the Ending Hunger website, and also see other visualizations about food and hunger.
Food for 9 Billion, is a collaborative project of Homelands Productions, the Center for Investigative Reporting, American Public Media’s Marketplace, and PBS Newshour.
Image Source:
www.endinghunger.org
Links:
www.endinghunger.org/en/mappinghunger/hunger_timeline.html
cironline.org/projects/food-9-billion