The Fight Against Hunger And Malnutrition
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Author |
: David E. Sahn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 529 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198733201 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198733208 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition by : David E. Sahn
Advances in science and policy during the past 50 years have prevented the predicted widespread food shortages as the world's population soared. Malnutrition, however, remains prevalent. This book details strategies and practical approaches designed to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in a new era where technological change, markets, patterns of governance, and social programs have an increasingly global dimension. More specifically, this book addresses a range of considerations including the role of small farmers in a world where the global reach of multinational corporations have enormous control from the farm to local markets and the grocery store; misgivings and misperceptions about genetically modified foods; the increasing competition of food and energy sectors for agricultural output; the importance of micronutrient deficiencies and chronic disease related to obesity, which often coexists in the same communities as hunger; and issues of sustainability of the food and agricultural system in an period when there is increasing concerns over global warming and environmental degradation. Currently there is also more emphasis on evidence-based policymaking, which has raised the standard of proof for evaluating the impact of micro-level interventions that have traditionally been so widely embraced and are now under increased scrutiny. It is in this context that this book provides practical advice on programs that can effectively target those at greatest risk of malnutrition and guidance on policies to promote a healthy and sustainable food and agricultural system. Overlaying all of these challenges is the book's emphasis on both identifying data and information needs for decision-making, and practical considerations for better understanding the domestic and international political and social constraints that need to be addressed when trying to translate scientific knowledge and information into practice.
Author |
: Devi Sridhar |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2008-09-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199549962 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199549966 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Battle Against Hunger by : Devi Sridhar
Why have strategies to combat hunger in India failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming economic growth come to have half of its preschool population undernourished? This book takes up these questions and probes the issues surrounding the World Bank, development assistance, hunger, and aid and power.
Author |
: Ernest F. Hollings |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1970 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015004878529 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Case Against Hunger by : Ernest F. Hollings
Author |
: Francis Adams |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2020-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030602550 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030602559 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Right to Food by : Francis Adams
This book examines the global campaign to end hunger and malnutrition. Focus is placed on the work of the United Nations which has led international efforts to improve food security in the world’s poorest countries. The book first reviews the long-term project to establish access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food as a universally recognized human right. This is followed by separate chapters that examine the nature and central causes of food insecurity in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. These chapters also review the contemporary work of three United Nations agencies – the World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organization, and International Fund for Agricultural Development – in providing both food aid and food assistance to each region of the developing world. This includes the provision of emergency food aid in response to natural disaster and civil conflict, as well as longer-term food assistance to promote agricultural productivity, advance rural development, and preserve natural environments. The concluding chapter considers ways to strengthen food aid and assistance in the years to come, with many of the recommendations advanced reflecting lessons learned from the actual experience of food aid and assistance described in this book.
Author |
: M. Jahi Chappell |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2018-01-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520293090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520293096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beginning to End Hunger by : M. Jahi Chappell
Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful city-run food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of a path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.
Author |
: Raghbendra Jha |
Publisher |
: World Scientific Publishing Company |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9813239905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789813239906 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hunger and Malnutrition as Major Challenges of the 21st Century by : Raghbendra Jha
The UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for 'Zero Hunger' has refocused attention on hunger and malnutrition as major challenges for the 21st century and as essential desired goals for human development. This volume provides key insights on how these challenges for food security can be addressed globally and in a number of countries that face these challenges most acutely. According to the World Food Summit, food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. The implication is that lack of food security would overlap with hunger -- both overt and hidden -- and undernutrition and would have spillover effects onto the health of and labor market performance of those affected by such insecurity. This range of issues have guided the choice of contributions to this volume. Several manifestations of these topics are covered for a number of countries in Asia and Africa.
Author |
: United Nations World Food Programme |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 193 |
Release |
: 2012-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136563508 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136563504 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hunger and Markets by : United Nations World Food Programme
Hunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake. Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are also critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of markets' institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyzes the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, and will be essential reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger. Published with World Food Programme
Author |
: Fan, Shenggen |
Publisher |
: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages |
: 4 |
Release |
: 2018-02-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780896292994 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0896292991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quantifying the cost and benefits of ending hunger and undernutrition: Examining the differences among alternative approaches by : Fan, Shenggen
This brief examines estimates produced by several recent model simulations and frameworks that focus on the cost of ending hunger as well as progress toward other development goals—estimates that range from US$7 billion to US$265 billion per year. The differences among these estimates are largely attributable to the different targeted objectives and policy questions of each modeling exercise, different investment strategies considered, and varying assumptions about the role of different sectors in reducing hunger.
Author |
: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Publisher |
: Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Total Pages |
: 16 |
Release |
: 2019-01-25 |
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: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Accelerating the end of hunger and malnutrition: A global event: Synopsis by : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 16 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:43884016 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition by :