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World hunger

Title:

World hunger

Author:

Young, Liz, 1951-

ISBN:

9780415137737

Personal Author:

Young, Liz, 1951-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Physical Description:

x, 184 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.

Series:

Routledge introductions to development

Series Title:

Routledge introductions to development

Contents:

1. A framework for analysis and historical overview -- 2. The contemporary nature and extent of hunger -- 3. International perspectives on global hunger -- 4. National perspectives -- 5. Gendered fields -- 6. Sub-national perspectives -- 7. Conflict and hunger -- 8. Alternative futures.

Abstract:

World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agriculture production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local. Globalisation and access to food in the global supermarket is examined. Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.

Subject Term:

Food supply -- Developing countries.

Hunger -- Developing countries.

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World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local. Globalisation and access to food in the global supermarket is examined.
Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.