Addressing Global Hunger

• Author : Marianella Herrera-Cuenca,Tatyana El-Kour
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 01 October 2020

Addressing Global Hunger: Lessons Learned from Syria and Venezuela offers an innovative tool for engaging in efforts against hunger and brings forward a hybrid approach for identifying mechanisms of how global hunger is established, identified, addressed and eradicated within personal and social constructs and values. As the global population continues to grow, the world is challenged with the evolving dynamics of food and nutrition sovereignty. In this deeply researched and vitally important book, the authors aim to bridge the global

• Author : Bhaskar Vira,Christoph Wildburger,Stephanie Mansourian
• Publisher : Open Book Publishers
• Release : 15 November 2015

As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 2021

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Subcommittee on Foreign Agricultural Policy
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 1986

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 1981

• Author : World Food Programme
• Publisher : Earthscan
• Release : 16 April 2021

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. It sets out the ways in which programme design and policy formulation can build on the strength of markets to prevent negative effects.

• Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 2021

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 2021

• Author : Gordon Conway
• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• Release : 15 October 2012

Hunger is a daily reality for a billion people. More than six decades after the technological discoveries that led to the Green Revolution aimed at ending world hunger, regular food shortages, malnutrition, and poverty still plague vast swaths of the world. And with increasing food prices, climate change, resource inequality, and an ever-increasing global population, the future holds further challenges. In One Billion Hungry, Sir Gordon Conway, one of the world's foremost experts on global food needs, explains the many

• Author : Institute of Medicine,Food and Nutrition Board,Board on Global Health
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 10 April 2010

In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of high food prices, exacerbating the problems of hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The tandem food price and economic crises struck amidst the massive, chronic problem of hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. National governments and international actors have taken a variety of steps to mitigate the negative effects of increased food prices on particular groups. The recent

• Author : United Nations World Food Programme
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 04 May 2012

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

• Author : Frances Moore Lappé,Joseph Collins
• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• Release : 16 April 1979

• Author : George Kent
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 03 December 2015

Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that the powerful care - but not enough to make a difference. George Kent argues that the central focus in overcoming hunger should be on building stronger communities. It is these communities which can provide mutual support to ensure that people don't go hungry. Kent demonstrates that there is not a shortage of food but of what

• Author : Jean Drèze,Amartya Sen
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 16 April 1989

This book analyses the role of public action in solving the problem of hunger in the modern world and is divided into four parts: Hunger in the modern world, Famines, Undernutrition and deprivation, and Hunger and public action.

• Author : von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,de Waal, Alex,Prasai, Nilam,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac
• Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
• Release : 12 October 2015

The developing world has made progress in reducing hunger since 2000. The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent. Yet the state of hunger in the world remains serious. This marks the tenth year that IFPRI has assessed global hunger using this multidimensional measure. This report’s GHI scores are based on a new, improved formula that replaces the child underweight indicator of previous years with child stunting