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
