Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top
priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to
eat." The United States spends about five billion dollars on food
aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically
and internationally, millions of people are hungry. In 2006, the
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted
850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an
additional 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to
food insecurity.
If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no one would
go without. There is more than enough food produced annually to
provide every living person with a healthy diet, yet so many suffer
from food shortages, unsafe water, and malnutrition every year.
That's because hunger is a complex political, economic, and
ecological phenomenon. The interplay of these forces produces a
geography of hunger that Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson
illuminate in this empowering book. "The Atlas of World Hunger"
uses a conceptual framework informed by geography and agricultural
economics to present a hunger index that combines food
availability, household access, and nutritional outcomes into a
single tool--one that delivers a fuller understanding of the scope
of global hunger, its underlying mechanisms, and the ways in which
the goals for ending hunger can be achieved. The first depiction of
the geography of hunger worldwide, the" Atlas" will be an important
resource for teachers, students, and anyone else interested in
understanding the geography and causes of hunger. This knowledge,
the authors argue, is a critical first step toward eliminating
unnecessary suffering in a world of plenty.
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