{"id":21,"date":"2008-03-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/hungerrumblings\/2008\/03\/03\/3rd-world-farmer\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T19:00:00","slug":"3rd-world-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/worldhunger\/3rd-world-farmer\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd World Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/hungerrumblings\/2009\/07\/3rd-world-farmer-787360.jpg\" alt=\"3rd-world-farmer-787360\" title=\"3rd-world-farmer-787360\" width=\"194\" height=\"181\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-227\" \/> <\/p>\n<div>I found another interesting (and free!) hunger-related game on the Internet. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3rdworldfarmer.com\/index_content.html\">3rd World Farmer<\/a>. It&#8217;s not particularly new, so you socially-minded gamers out there are probably rolling your eyes at this post. But as one who doesn&#8217;t find the time to hang in the gaming world, I&#8217;m enjoying this discovery. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Well, maybe enjoying isn&#8217;t the right word. The game simulates life for a family of African farmers. You make decisions about what crops to plant, equipment or livestock to buy, whether to pay for school and medicines, etc. Then you&#8217;re told how your decisions turned out. Armed with that information, you tally up your household&#8217;s money, equipment, and health, and you make new decisions for the next year. On the whole, there&#8217;s lots of bad news and it&#8217;s kind of frustrating. Yet I found I wanted to keep trying. Hope springs eternal, after all. <\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>I learned about the game on <a href=\"http:\/\/gamepolitics.livejournal.com\/318127.html\">gamepolitics blog<\/a>, and as the author wrote, &#8220;It&#8217;s not fair and it&#8217;s not fun but perhaps that is the point.&#8221; The creators (university students in Copenhagen) suggest using it to start discussions, and I can easily see how it could! They also suggest using it to spur action. I think it could do that, too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found another interesting (and free!) hunger-related game on the Internet. It&#8217;s called 3rd World Farmer. It&#8217;s not particularly new, so you socially-minded gamers out there are probably rolling your eyes at this post. But as one who doesn&#8217;t find the time to hang in the gaming world, I&#8217;m enjoying this discovery. 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