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Book Hunger Amidst Plenty

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  • Author : Candace A. Roper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 566 pages

Download or read book Hunger Amidst Plenty written by Candace A. Roper and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunger Amidst Plenty

Download or read book Hunger Amidst Plenty written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunger Strike

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  • Author : Susie Orbach
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-04-24
  • ISBN : 0429914660
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Hunger Strike written by Susie Orbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Orbach is a psychotherapist arid writer. With Luise Eichenbaum she co-founded The Women's Therapy Centre in London in 1976 and in 1981 The Women's Therapy Centre Institute in New York. She lectures extensively in Europe and North America, is a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, and has a practice seeing individuals and couples and consulting to organizations. She is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, as well as to radio and television programmes. Her other books on eating problems are Fat is a Feminist Issue (1978), Fat is a Feminist Issue II (1982) and On Eating (2002). With Luise Eichenbaum she has written Understanding Women: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Account (1982), What do Women Want (1983) and Between Women (1988). She is also the author of What's Really Going on Here (1993), Towards Emotional Literacy (1999) and The Impossibility of Sex (1999).

Book India

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  • Author : Jean Drèze
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780199257492
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book India written by Jean Drèze and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of public action in eliminating deprivation and expanding human freedoms in India. The analysis is based on a broad and integrated view of development, which focuses on well-being and freedom rather than the standard indicators of economic growth. The authors placehuman agency at the centre of stage, and stress the complementary roles of different institutions (economic, social, and political) in enhancing effective freedoms.In comparative international perspective, the Indian economy has done reasonably well in the period following the economic reforms initiated in the early nineties. However, relatively high aggregate economic growth coexists with the persistence of endemic deprivation and deep social failures. JeanDreze and Amartya Sen relate this imbalance to the continued neglect, in the post-reform period, of public involvement in crucial fields such as basic education, health care, social security, environmental protection, gender equity, and civil rights, and also to the imposition of new burdens such asthe accelerated expansion of military expenditure. Further, the authors link these distortions of public priorities with deep-seated inequalities of social influence and political power. The book discusses the possibility of addressing these biases through more active democratic practice.

Book Systemic Origins of Hunger Amidst Plenty During the Onset of the COVID 19 Pandemic in the United States

Download or read book Systemic Origins of Hunger Amidst Plenty During the Onset of the COVID 19 Pandemic in the United States written by James Paine and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the COVID-19 pandemic strained supply chains around the world a striking, and seeming contradictory, outcome became apparent: Surges in rates of hunger in consumers occurred simultaneously with surges in food surplus and purposeful disposal. To better understand the systemic origins of this seeming imbalance, this paper develops a dynamic model of a bifurcated food supply chain, from production through consumption, based on empirical observations drawn from the popular press and industry reports form the onset of the pandemic. The model considers both the physical flow of food from farmer to end consumer, along with the processes of price discovery and corresponding economic decisions made by the producer to ship, continue to grow, or purposefully dispose of food under cultivation. The resulting model combines three methods: compartmental differential equation modeling, inventory-based price discovery, and multinomial logistic choice modeling. The dynamics generated illustrate the origins of simultaneous paucity and plenty in a food supply chain and help suggest policy interventions. Policies that help reduce the upstream inventory stresses from a sudden decrease in downstream demand, or those that increase substitutability of end consumer goods across channels, are effective at mitigating the degree of purposeful food destruction and reducing economic stresses.

Book Hunger Amidst Plenty

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9789784914284
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Hunger Amidst Plenty written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet

Download or read book Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet written by Jessica Fanzo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author explores the interactions among food systems, diets, human health, and the climate crisis. Drawing on decades of hands-on research projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, she describes how food systems must evolve to promote healthy, sustainable, and equitable diets"--

Book Hunger Amidst Plenty

Download or read book Hunger Amidst Plenty written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hunger and Shame

Download or read book Hunger and Shame written by Mary Howard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger and Shame is a passionate account of child malnutrition in a relatively wealthy populace, the Chagga in Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Views of family members, health workers and government officials provide insights into the complex of ideas, institutions and human fallibility that sustain the shame of malnutrition in the mountains. Discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the presence of malnourished children in the community, the authors explore the shame associated with child hunger in relation to social organization, colonial history and the global economy. Their discussions challenge the reader to ask fundamental questions concerning ethics, the politics of poverty and shame and social relations.

Book Debt  Development  and Equity in Africa

Download or read book Debt Development and Equity in Africa written by Karamo N. M. Sonko and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assesses the impact of the African debt crisis on poverty. The author studies the relationship between debt and socio-economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, Sonko analyzes the impact of debt-induced expenditure adjustments, including budgetary retrenchment in an African economy undergoing structural adjustment. Sustainable, self-reliant development, debt relief, and the redesign of structural adjustment programs to make them less controversial and more effective in Africa are required. The overall analysis is conducted with a view to what the author refers to as the "state of global interconnectedness," implying the need for global economic policy coordination and assistance in finding solutions to Africa's development problems. Contents: The Debt Burden: Trends, Causes and Comparative Analysis; Debt and Development; Debt, Adjustment and Equity; Structural Adjustment Programs: Criticisms, Evolution and Forms for the 1990s; The African Debt Crisis: What Can and Should be Done? Summary and Concluding Remarks; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Book Hunger and Happiness

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  • Author : L. Shannon Jung
  • Publisher : Augsburg Books
  • Release : 2009-06-01
  • ISBN : 1451412762
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Hunger and Happiness written by L. Shannon Jung and published by Augsburg Books. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where there is so much food, why are so many people hungry? Amidst so much plenty, why aren't people happier? L. Shannon Jung insists that the two questions-one having to do with physical hunger, the other with spiritual want-are related. Hunger and Happiness exposes the atrocities of a global food system whereby the affluent "feed" at the expense of others, but then goes on to explore how complicity in the hunger of others contributes to the "spiritual malnourishment" of those who otherwise are well fed. Chapters address particular aspects of a global food policy that insures cheap food for some at great expense to many others. Jung considers the psychological and theological implications of such policy and after assessing the moral ramifications of cheap food, offers possibilities for alleviating physical hunger in the world and spiritual malaise in our lives.

Book Uncommon Opportunities

Download or read book Uncommon Opportunities written by International Commission on Peace and Food and published by The Mother's Service Society. This book was released on 1994 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Commission delivers a message of hope - but hope rooted in the realities of human resourcefulness and practical measures that citizens' groups, governments and international institutions could take up. It is a message we all should heed and act upon.

Book Eating Culture

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  • Author : Gillian Crowther
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 1487593295
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Eating Culture written by Gillian Crowther and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, Eating Culture is a highly engaging overview that illustrates the important role that anthropology and anthropologists have played in understanding food, as well as the key role that food plays in the study of culture. The new edition, now with a full-color interior, introduces discussions about nomadism, commercializing food, food security, and ethical consumption, including treatment of animals and the long-term environmental and health consequences of meat consumption. "Grist to the Mill" sections at the end of each chapter provide further readings and "Food for Thought" case studies and exercises help to highlight anthropological methods and approaches. By considering the concept of cuisine and public discourse, this practical guide brings order and insight to our changing relationship with food.

Book Geographies of Food

Download or read book Geographies of Food written by Moya Kneafsey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays in our everyday lives. Geographies of Food explores contemporary food issues and crises in all their dimensions, as well as the many solutions currently being proposed. Drawing on global case studies from the Majority and Minority Worlds, it analyses the complex relationships operating between people and processes at a range of geographical scales, from the shopping decisions of consumers in a British or US supermarket, to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the high-level political negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the strategies of giant American and European agri-businesses whose activities span several continents. With over 60 color images and a range of lively pedagogical features, Geographies of Food is essential reading for undergraduates studying food and geography.

Book Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981

Download or read book Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The politics of hunger

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  • Author : Carl J. Griffin
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-18
  • ISBN : 1526145618
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The politics of hunger written by Carl J. Griffin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named ‘Hungry 40s’ came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an ‘unremitted pressure’. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.

Book Food Insecurity in India s Agricultural Heartland

Download or read book Food Insecurity in India s Agricultural Heartland written by Harpreet Kaur Narang and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is home to the world's largest hungry population and has a long way to go before it is anywhere near the mammoth task of achieving the United Nations' goal of ending hunger in 2030. It is ironic that this book raises the issue of "Hunger" in a state where it is least expected. Punjab is a state with mountains of food grains and overflowing godowns, with highest yields, and largest area under irrigation. Not only that, it is the Green Revolution state of India, that has played the most prominent role in helping India achieve its goal of food self-sufficiency. By investigating the hydra-headed concept of food security in Indian Punjab, this book brings to fore the different dimensions of the deprivation of human capabilities and the intricate relationship between food security and economy, ecology, and state policy. Moreover, it is a wakeup call for India; for if, this is the state of affairs in one of the more prosperous primarily agrarian states, what would be the situation in the poorer ones? The primary objective is to divert urgent attention to the issue of food security, as an important ingredient of human resource development. With a strong commitment to achieving the primary goal of human resource development, India's biggest burden could well become India's greatest asset in the path to inclusive development.