Chapter 6

Women in Africa and Asia

African women are healthier because they're expected to work harder, Asian women completely different case

The seasonality of undernutrition in the Third World is often linked to

Agricultural year

Region with the largest number of undernourished people

Asia

Which group is most vulnerable to undernutrition

Children

Asia

East, south, pacific

Sub-Saharan Africa

East, southern, west

Europe and Central Asia

Eastern, central, rest of Europe

India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Girls are more undernourished than boys, women are more undernourished than boys, children are more undernourished than adults

Season

Hunger season is right before the harvest, crops are planted however not ready yet and last harvest season is the farthest away

Political structures

No conclusive answer the one political structure is more or less destructive for hunger

Sub region with the largest number of undernourished people

South Asia

Region with the greatest proportion of their population undernourished

Sub-Saharan Africa

Regional divisions

Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia Middle East and North Africa, The Americas, Elope and Central Asia

Which of the following statements is correct concerning under nutrition in the developing world since the early 1970s

The number of undernourished people in Asia has declined while the number has increased in sub-Saharan Africa

By international standards the under nutrition problem in the United States is almost undetectable

True

One of the reasons a number of Asian countries have high numbers of low birth-weight babies because girls and women in South Asia are less well cared for than in Sub-Saharan Africa

True

The Americas

US, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean