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World Hunger: A Neo-Malthusian Perspective » Read Now
by Mitchell Kellman. 248 pgs.

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List of Tables List of Figures Preface Introduction The Analytical Framework Methodology Worldwide Impending Hunger: The Empirical Picture The Evidence of Effective Malthusian Pressures: The Empirical Record Changes in the Agricultural Tehcnology Summary Appendixes Bibliography Index
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World Hunger and the World Economy: And Other Essays in Development Economics » Read Now
by Keith Griffin. 274 pgs.

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The Political Economy of Hunger, Vol. 2 » Read Now
by Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen. 404 pgs.

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...THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HUNGER WIDER Studies in Development Economics...interrelationships. The Political Economy of Hunger Edited by JEAN DREZE AND AMARTYA...of a wide...
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Hunger: A Biopsychological Analysis » Read Now
by Saul Balagura. 179 pgs.

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...HUNGER BASIC TOPICS IN PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY SERIES Robert A. McCleary, Editor HUNGER A Biopsychological Analysis Saul Balagura HUNGER A BIOPSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS SAUL...
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Who's Hungry? And How Do We Know? Food Shortage, Poverty and Deprivation » Read Now
by Laurie DeRose, Ellen Messer, Sara Millman. 201 pgs.

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This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (individual malnutrition) in order to identify...
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This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (individual malnutrition) in order to identify the causes of hunger and recommend ways to effectively target interventions. It also focuses on a critical second question--how do we know who the hungry are? The authors explain commonly-used means of measuring hunger, the assumptions embedded in these measures, and what can and cannot be concluded from the evidence. They examine how rules for food distribution operate under normal versus crisis conditions. The shortage/poverty/deprivation framework is designed to call attention to hunger even when food is abundant, as well as to learn how hunger is avoided even when food is scarce. With many tools in place for combating hunger, the book draws attention to the policies that are working and to the individuals, households, and communities that are underserved. The book refines common thinking about the underlying causes of hunger by examining who are most affected.
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Health, Food, and Nutrition in Third World Development » Read Now
by Pradip K. Ghosh. 622 pgs.

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...increases in production are to actually reduce hunger, improve health and nutrition. This...sufficiently for the virtual elimination of hunger and malnutrition by the end...
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Black Hunger: Food and the Politics of U.S. Identity » Read Now
by Doris Witt. 294 pgs.

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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of...
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The creation of the Aunt Jemima trademark from an 1889 vaudeville performance of a play called "The Emigrant" helped codify a pervasive connection between African American women and food. In Black Hunger, Doris Witt demonstrates how this connection has operated as a central structuring dynamic of twentieth-century U.S. psychic, cultural, sociopolitical, and economic life. Taking as her focus the tumultuous era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, when soul food emerged as a pivotal emblem of white radical chic and black bourgeois authenticity, Witt explores how this interracial celebration of previously stigmatized foods such as chitterlings and watermelon was linked to the contemporaneous vilification of black women as slave mothers. By positioning African American women at the nexus of debates over domestic servants, black culinary history, and white female body politics, Black Hunger demonstrates why the ongoing narrative of white fascination with blackness demands increased attention to the internal dynamics of sexuality, gender, class, and religion in African American culture. Witt draws on recent work in social history and cultural studies to argue for food as an interpretive paradigm which can challenge the privileging of music in scholarship on African American culture, destabilize constrictive disciplinary boundaries in the academy, and enhance our understanding of how individual and collective identities are established.
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Bread for the World » Read Now
by Arthur Simon. 182 pgs.

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...PART I: THE STRUGGLE FOR BREAD 1.Hunger 3 A New Focus on Hunger 5 The Formation of a Crisis...Style of Life 55 6.Up from Hunger 58 The Development Struggle...
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The Politics of Hunger: An Interview with David Beckman, in The Christian Century » Read Now
by The Christian Century. 5 pgs.

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...The politics of hunger: an interview with David Beckman...Christian citizens movement to reduce hunger The Century spoke with him recently about...current projects and...
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Struggling with Development: The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines » Read Now
by Lynn M. Kwiatkowski. 350 pgs.

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Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, & gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation...
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Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, & gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women & children & the raising of women's social position, has instead perpetuated the problems of hunger & gender inequality in societies. Lynn Kwiatkowski questions the international "women in development" thrust of some feminist & development scholarship & organizations, arguing for a critical reevaluation of the hegemonic Western international development project.
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Famine in Peasant Societies » Read Now
by Ronald E. Seavoy. 484 pgs.

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...alter human behavior because the record of hunger and misery in subsistence cultures made...usually inefficient, but there is neither hunger nor famine because commercial...
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The Real Cost of Hunger, in UN Chronicle » Read Now
by George Mcgovern. 4 pgs.

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...The real cost of hunger by George McGovern Hunger is a political condition. The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has...
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An End to Hunger, in The Progressive » Read Now
by The Progressive. 3 pgs.

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...An End to Hunger In late October, hunger made the national political agenda for the first time in many...According to a 1996 report by the Tufts University Center on...
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Still Hungry after All These Years: Food Assistance Policy from Kennedy to Reagan » Read Now
by Ardith L. Maney. 198 pgs.

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In the 1980s record numbers of Americans have qualified for food stamps and food aid in other forms despite increasingly rigid standards of eligibility. This new study examines the policy processes that have shaped food assistance programs since the Kennedy administration and looks at prospects for...
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In the 1980s record numbers of Americans have qualified for food stamps and food aid in other forms despite increasingly rigid standards of eligibility. This new study examines the policy processes that have shaped food assistance programs since the Kennedy administration and looks at prospects for resolving the political stalemate over food aid that has overtaken national policy. Focusing on conflicts over policy objectives and budget, the author traces the ups and downs of the struggle between the executive branch and Congress to control both policy and appropriations. This is a clear and balanced analysis of one of the gravest policy dilemmas facing the naton.
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