Great Leap Forward

-1958 the government of China came up with the Great Leap Forward
-supposed to be a plan for China’s population to transform into a communist society.
-Individual farming was forbidden and food rationing was introduced by the government.
-Rural Chinese people were left with less than 250g of grain per day
-caused famine
-20 million deaths


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-A lot of the famine and starvation is in the third world countries.
-Don't have enough money and resources to keep their people well fed and healthy.
-Even though there are still people who are starving and homeless in the first world countries, they still receive some kind of aid from the country they live in.

-Every year 15 million children die of hunger
-3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.
-To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.