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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Bassett, Thomas J. (Autor), Winter-Nelson, Alex (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
Temas:
Atlases.
Food supply > Maps.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
poverty, food aid, hunger, famine, humanitarianism, united nations, production, agriculture, insecurity, shortages, malnutrition, unsafe water, nonfiction, geography, welfare, assistance, government, intervention, economics, nutrition, household access, availability, undernourishment, obesity, growth failure, india, mexico, uruguay, arable land, climate change, global warming, fertilizer, debt, inequality, income, neocolonialism, colonialism, politics, political science, sanitation, malaria, public health, hiv, aids, trade.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Boxes
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I: Locating Hunger
  • Indicators of Malnutrition
  • 2: Food Availability
  • 3: Prevalence of Undernourishment (POU)
  • 4: Micronutrient Malnutrition
  • 5: Malnutrition and Obesity
  • 6: Growth Failure
  • 7: Household Poverty
  • 8: The Hunger Vulnerability Index
  • Patterns of Hunger within Countries
  • 9: Child Growth Failure in Uruguay
  • 10: Food Insecurity in the United States
  • 11: Malnutrition in India and Mexico
  • Part II: The Sources of Hunger
  • National Resources
  • 12: Population Growth
  • 13: Arable Land per Capita
  • 14: Environmental Systems Health
  • 15: Human Resources: Literacy
  • 16: Built Resources: Roads
  • 17: Change in Resource Base
  • 18: Climate Change
  • Technology
  • 19: College and University Enrollment and Research and Development
  • 20: Agricultural Technology: Fertilizer
  • Institutions and Power Relations
  • 21: Colonialism and Neocolonialism
  • 22: Debt and International Power Relations
  • 23: Political Freedoms
  • 24: Income Inequality
  • 25: Gender Inequality
  • Poverty and Hunger
  • 26: National Income per Capita
  • 27: Extreme Poverty
  • Exacerbating Conditions and Events
  • 28: Dependency Ratio
  • 29: HIV/AIDS
  • 30: Malaria
  • 31: Health Expenditures per Capita
  • 32: Unsafe Water and Poor Sanitation
  • 33: International Trade and Primary Products
  • 34: International Terms of Trade
  • 35: Terms-of-Trade Shocks
  • 36: Food Trade
  • 37: Food Price Shocks
  • 38: Development Aid and Food
  • 39: War
  • 40: Natural Disasters
  • 41: Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: Map Data Sources
  • Appendix 2: Hunger Vulnerability Index
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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