Hunger and Climate Change

Understand whether climate change impacts world hunger.

Lesson steps

Ask children, what does hunger mean? What causes hunger? Beyond the absence of food, what other global factors could contribute to world hunger?

Discuss with the students some of the reasons why people go hungry, such as poverty, war, and climate change.

Watch the What is Climate Change?

Learn about about the causes of climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation.

What is Climate Change?

Let Nigel the Nervous Narwhal be your guide as he discusses the heating planet, fossil fuels and what we can do to protect our beautiful Earth.

Discuss how climate change affects agriculture and food production.

Include discussions around droughts, floods, and soil degradation. When crops fail, there isn’t any food!

Ask children what foods are relied upon to sustain families in Africa, Asia, Europe and the UK?

Explain that most food staples (dominant part of the population's diet) are plant based and inexpensive.

Learn more about food staples here!

As a class, watch the Climate Change and Hunger video.

Climate Change and Hunger by Welthungerhilfe

Present the Climate Change and Hunger Images presentation.

Learn about the livelihoods of people in different parts of the world and how food production have been impacted about climate change.

Climate Change and Hunger Images

Images of how climate change has impacted food production around the world.

Encourage students to share their thoughts and ideas with the class and discuss different perspectives on the issue.

Ask children to reflect on what they have learned and what actions they can take in their own lives to help reduce hunger and combat climate change.

Learning outcomes

Learn about world hunger and how climate change affects it.

Identify the causes and consequences of world hunger and what they can do to address it.

Carry out research about world food staples.

Questions

How does climate change affect world hunger?

What can you do in your school and local community to help?

Have you ever donated to a food bank?

Who needs to use food banks?

Vocabulary

Zero hunger

Global Goals

Starvation

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Talking points

World hunger only affects people who live in third world countries

Activity ideas

Reflect on Hunger and Climate Change

Using the worksheet, write and reflect on what you have learned.

Hunger and Climate Change

A worksheet to help promote children to reflect and write about the affects of climate change on world hunger.

Food staples

Research food staples in Africa, Asia, Europe and the UK.Use this National Geographic webpage to help research.

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