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The Battle Against Hunger - Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank (Hardcover)
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The Battle Against Hunger - Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank (Hardcover)
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We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated
number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to
rise with the doubling of food prices. A large majority of those
affected are living in India. Why have strategies to combat hunger,
especially 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?
Using the case study of a World Bank nutrition project in India,
this book takes on these questions and probes the issues
surrounding development assistance, strategies to eliminate
undernutrition, and how hunger should be fundamentally understood
and addressed.
Throughout the book, the underlying tension between choice and
circumstance is explored. How much are individuals able to
determine their life choices? How much should policy-makers take
underlying social forces into account when designing policy? This
book examines the possibilities, and obstacles, to eliminating
child hunger.
This book is not just about nutrition. It is an attempt to uncover
the workings of power through a close look at the structures,
discourses, and agencies through which nutrition policy operates.
In this process, the source of nutrition policy in the World Bank
is traced to those affected by the policies in India.
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