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Atlas of World Hunger
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "e;making sure that people are able to get enough to eat."e; The United States spends about five …
Human Rights and World Trade
A new and incisive analysis of the political viability of human rights, with an in-depth investigation of its largest violation: world hunger. Gonzalez-Pelaez develops John …
Victims of Ireland's Great Famine
With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. Because historical records of the Victorian …
POVERTY, FAMINE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Meghnad Desai's work presents a significant challenge to economics as currently practised. Poverty, Famine and Economic Development brings together essays which reflect his …
Hunger in America
The nutrition title of the omnibus 2008 "farm bill" is the focus of legislation affecting domestic food assistance programs in the 110th Congress. The program areas that are …
A History of World Agriculture
A History of World Agriculture begins with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering. It shows how …
Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa's persistent food insecurity and vulnerability to famine reflects failures of understanding as much as failures of interventions. Food Security in Sub-Saharan …
Food, Consumers, and the Food Industry
During the past, there have been many changes in food availability, production and selection around the world. These changes, such as genetically modified foods, raise questions …
Milestones in Humanitarian Action
This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC); the completion of 50 of our premier …
Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its …