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World hunger is prevalent yet receives relatively less attention
compared to poverty. The MDGs have taken a step to address this
with the resolution of halving the number of starving people in the
world by 2015. Hunger though is not a straightforward problem of
producing enough to feed the world's population; it has many
cross-cutting dimensions. This volume discusses the significance of
human rights approaches to food and the way it relates to gender
considerations, addressing links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS
pandemic, agricultural productivity and the environment.
This volume discusses the significance of human rights approaches
to food and the way it relates to gender considerations, addressing
links between hunger and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, agricultural
productivity and the environment.
What are the implications of the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture for
food security in poor countries? Are economic reforms and high
growth rates in some countries protecting the well-being of the
poor by improving the status of nutrition? Are we measuring hunger
adequately? Do we need new tools and indicators? Does women's
socio-economic status matter for child-health? Are targeted
programmes successful in identifying and helping the truly
needy?
Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition,
the fight against world hunger has recently been overshadowed by
the campaign to end poverty. The emergence of the WTO and the
freeing of agricultural trade, for example, have serious
implications for hunger and food security in many countries, yet
this is an area that is relatively understudied. This book aims to
fill this gap by providing a significant collection of essays from
mainstream academia and prominent international organizations
working for food security. Examining food security across regions,
the book tackles food security at three distinct levels-national,
household, and individual. Other topics included are: attempts to
improve measurement tools; the applications of existing tools for
empirical analysis using household data, and; the impact of trade
openness on national food security.
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