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The Supermap: World Food Statistics

Maps that reveal global hunger

The Supermap – really thirteen maps in one – is designed by The Food for 9 Billion Project, in association with Cornell University and Homelands Productions, to show the problem of hunger at a glance. The novel aspect of the supermap is that it doesn’t stop at highlighting the problems, it also shows where there are potential solutions.

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A simple map for a complex problem
The high price of food

In the past decade, food prices have skyrocketed to all-time highs. In 2010-2011 alone, rising food prices pushed nearly 70 million people into extreme poverty. [...]

Food Security Risk Index Map 2013

This is a map created by risk analysis experts Maplecroft using the key elements of food security set by FAO. [...]

Food through the ages

Did you know that agriculture was born around 9500 BC? Did you know that we have evidence that human populations suffered famine as early as 1315? An interactive timeline that chronicles “the human struggle to put food on the table, from the birth of agriculture to the birth of the 9 billionth human,” has been created by the Food for 9 Billion Project. [...]

Where are the hungry?

This is one way to map hunger – by percentage of undernourished in the total population. [...]

The Hungry Children Map

This map shows startling facts about nutrition and children in our world where one out of four children from developing countries are underweight. [...]

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