Providing Food Security for All (Studies in rural poverty): 1 (Reappraisals Jewish Social History) - Hardcover

Arora, Poonam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814706037 ISBN 13: 9780814706039

Publisher: NYU Press, 1991

Synopsis

This volume is an in-depth study of global food security, focused at the household level. Filled with dozens of revealing figures, charts, and tables, including a food security index that ranks developing countries in terms of their vulverability to hunger, the work provides a basic introduction to issues of food security. The work illustates that a micro-economic, grassroots approach, rooted in the self-help capacities of the poor, is not only feasable, but a productive means of enhancing food security for all.

About this title

Synopsis:

The most fundamental indicator of poverty is the ability to feed oneself, to secure food necessary for basic survival. To eradicate poverty, one must first eradicate hunger. 16 years have passed since the World Food Conference vowed to wipe out hunger worldwide. Yet ensuring that no child, man or woman goes to bed hungry has proven an enterprise of monumental proportion and complexity. This volume is a study of global food security, focused at the household level. The authors illustrate that a micro-economic, grassroots approach, rooted in the self-help capacities of the poor is not only feasible, but a productive means of enhancing food security for all.

About the Author:

Mohiuddin Alamgir is Director of the Policy and Planning Division of IFAD in Romeand the author of Famine in South Asia: Political Economy of Mass Starvation and Bangaldesh.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0814706037
• ISBN 13: 9780814706039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292
• Editor: Alamgir Mohiuddin