Download or read book Middle Income Classes and Food Crises written by Pan A. Yotopoulos and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Middle Income Classes and Food Crises written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mitigating the Nutritional Impacts of the Global Food Price Crisis written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of high food prices, exacerbating the problems of hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The tandem food price and economic crises struck amidst the massive, chronic problem of hunger and undernutrition in developing countries. National governments and international actors have taken a variety of steps to mitigate the negative effects of increased food prices on particular groups. The recent abrupt increase in food prices, in tandem with the current global economic crisis, threatens progress already made in these areas, and could inhibit future efforts. The Institute of Medicine held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to describe the dynamic technological, agricultural, and economic issues contributing to the food price increases of 2007 and 2008 and their impacts on health and nutrition in resource-poor regions. The compounding effects of the current global economic downturn on nutrition motivated additional discussions on these dual crises, their impacts on the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, and opportunities to mitigate their negative nutritional effects.

Download or read book The Size of Middle Class and Its Effect on Global Food Security written by Anh Bui and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Background: Current nutrition trends indicate that malnutrition and food insecurity are not only a matter of undernutrition but also overnutrition. This nutrition transition not only affects individuals of low income levels, but all corners of the world and individuals of all ages, sexes, and income classes. This is especially important in the middle income class where demands for processed foods are at a high.Objective: To explore the effect of the size of national middle class on global food security, as well as to determine the factors impacting this relationship. Methodology: Data were collected from the 2014 Gallup World Poll cross-sectional survey. Data from 124 countries were analyzed, for a total of 157,060 respondents from nationally representative samples, of ages 15 years and older. Considering its validation worldwide by the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Food Insecurity Experience Scale was used to assess respondents' food security status. By using annual household income expressed in international dollars, Lorenz curves were produced to define middle income class in each country as those in the middle 60% of national household income. Spearman's rank correlations, Type II Regressions, and Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) were employed to assess the relationship between middle class size (independent variable) and the prevalence of food insecurity (the dependent variable) at a global and regional scale. Data were disaggregated based on sex and rural-urban distribution at the global scale. Regions explored were Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. Full models controlled for variables such as coefficient of variation in national incomes, rate of GDP growth, community basics, national institutions, and corruption. All tests were evaluated at 0.05 significance level. Results: At a global level, national size of middle income groups was found to be negatively associated with food security even when data for rural and urban women and men were analyzed separately. A similar association was found in Africa, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean, but not in Asia. Global GLMs demonstrated negative predictions of variation in national incomes and community basics index, as well as a positive prediction of GDP growth rate, for prevalence of food security. Conclusion: These findings suggest that global food security may be diminished by the expansion of middle class. This warrants for further investigation in this income group to determine the causes of food insecurity, as well as to provide economic and food stability for those vulnerable to this phenomenon." --

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.

Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year’s report presents evidence that the absolute number of people who suffer from hunger continues to slowly increase. The report also highlights that food insecurity is more than just hunger. For the first time, the report provides evidence that many people in the world, even if not hungry, experience moderate food insecurity as they face uncertainties about their ability to obtain food and are forced to compromise on the quality and/or quantity of the food they consume. This phenomenon is observed globally, not only in low- and middle-income countries but also in high income countries. The report also shows that the world is not on track to meet global nutrition targets, including those on low birthweight and on reducing stunting among children under five years. Moreover, overweight and obesity continue to increase in all regions, particularly among school-age children and adults. The report stresses that no region is exempt from the epidemic of overweight and obesity, underscoring the necessity of multifaceted, multisectoral approaches to halt and reverse these worrying trends. In light of the fragile state of the world economy, the report presents new evidence confirming that hunger has been on the rise for many countries where the economy has slowed down or contracted. Unpacking the links between economic slowdowns and downturns and food insecurity and malnutrition, the report contends that the effects of the former on the latter can only be offset by addressing the root causes of hunger and malnutrition: poverty, inequality and marginalization.

Download or read book Food and financial crises Implications for agriculture and the poor written by Joachim von Braun and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008-12-14 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book West African Agriculture and Climate Change written by Abdulai Jalloh and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, West African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 11 of the countries that make up West Africa -- Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo -- and explores how climate change will increase the efforts needed to achieve sustainable food security throughout the region. West Africa's population is expected to grow at least through mid-century. The region will also see income growth. Both will put increased pressure on the natural resources needed to produce food, and climate change makes the challenges greater. West Africa is already experiencing rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the poor will suffer. Through the use of hundreds of scenario maps, models, figures, and detailed analysis, the editors and contributors of West African Agriculture and Climate Change present plausible future scenarios that combine economic and biophysical characteristics to explore the possible consequences for agriculture, food security, and resources management to 2050. They also offer recommendations to national governments and regional economic agencies already dealing with the vulnerabilities of climate change and deviations in environment. Decisionmakers and researchers will find West African Agriculture and Climate Change a vital tool for shaping policy and studying the various and likely consequences of climate change.

Download or read book The Global Food Crisis written by Jennifer Clapp and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the world’s poorest countries, both for the global environment and for the global rules and institutions that govern food and agriculture. In this volume, policy-makers and scholars assess the causes and consequences of the most recent food price volatility and examine the associated governance challenges and opportunities, including short-term emergency responses, the ecological dimensions of the crisis, and the longer-term goal of building sustainable global food systems. The recommendations include vastly increasing public investment in small-farm agriculture; reforming global food aid and food research institutions; establishing fairer international agricultural trade rules; promoting sustainable agricultural methods; placing agriculture higher on the post-Kyoto climate change agenda; revamping biofuel policies; and enhancing international agricultural policy-making. Co-published with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Download or read book The World Bank Group and the Global Food Crisis written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unanticipated spike in international food prices in 2007-08 hit many developing countries hard. This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank Group response in addressing the short-term impacts of the food price crisis and in enhancing the resilience of countries to future shocks.

Download or read book Natural Disasters and Food Crises in Low Income Countries written by Mr.Olumuyiwa Adedeji and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exposure of low-income countries to natural disasters has a significant impact on food production and food security. This paper provides a framework for assessing a country’s vulnerability to food crisis in the event of natural disasters. The paper finds that macroeconomic and structural indicators that are crucial for ensuring the resilience of low-income countries to adverse external shocks are equally important for minimizing the occurrence of food crisis in the event of natural disasters.

Download or read book The Crisis of the Middle Class written by Lewis Corey and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Notes": p. 367-379.

Download or read book Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization of the food supply has created conditions favorable for the emergence, reemergence, and spread of food-borne pathogens-compounding the challenge of anticipating, detecting, and effectively responding to food-borne threats to health. In the United States, food-borne agents affect 1 out of 6 individuals and cause approximately 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths each year. This figure likely represents just the tip of the iceberg, because it fails to account for the broad array of food-borne illnesses or for their wide-ranging repercussions for consumers, government, and the food industry-both domestically and internationally. A One Health approach to food safety may hold the promise of harnessing and integrating the expertise and resources from across the spectrum of multiple health domains including the human and veterinary medical and plant pathology communities with those of the wildlife and aquatic health and ecology communities. The IOM's Forum on Microbial Threats hosted a public workshop on December 13 and 14, 2011 that examined issues critical to the protection of the nation's food supply. The workshop explored existing knowledge and unanswered questions on the nature and extent of food-borne threats to health. Participants discussed the globalization of the U.S. food supply and the burden of illness associated with foodborne threats to health; considered the spectrum of food-borne threats as well as illustrative case studies; reviewed existing research, policies, and practices to prevent and mitigate foodborne threats; and, identified opportunities to reduce future threats to the nation's food supply through the use of a "One Health" approach to food safety. Improving Food Safety Through a One Health Approach: Workshop Summary covers the events of the workshop and explains the recommendations for future related workshops.

Download or read book Who s Hungry And how Do We Know written by Laurie Fields DeRose and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Global Food Crisis written by B. N Ghosh and published by Wisdom House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Th e global food crisis is not just another crisis, but its implications in terms of human cost and human capability failures, human rights and human freedom go beyond the arena of cognizable dimensions. Th e book is basically focused on the genesis, magnitude, impact and policy alternatives for the present food crisis. It brings under its analytic umbrella the problems and perspectives that accompany the crisis. The ramification of the crisis has been analyzed with respect to its impact on poverty, income distribution, infl ation rates, investment and savings, economic growth rates and other related macroeconomic fundamentals with special reference to developingeconomies. The studies also elaborate on the short-run and long-run policy options to find viable solutions to the problem of world food crisis. The chapters are written by well-known scholars. Readers with an interest in food prices and policy will fi nd this book to be a timely, up-to-date and informative for their personal book collection. It should be immensely useful to students of the subject, researchers, policy makers and intelligent laymen.Dr. B. N. Ghosh, PhD (India), PhD (Australia), M.CIM (UK), GFCR (Harvard), is a Visiting Professor at Leeds College of Business Management and Technology, Leeds (UK) and formerly, the Director of Institute of Management and Technology, Govt. of Kerala, Punnapra (Kerala). He received his education fromAustralia, India, UK and USA and has taught in many universitiesin India and abroad including University of Science, Malaysia and Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. He had a stint as a Visiting Professor at Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. He has written a large number of books published by multinational publishers including Routledge, Palgrave-Macmillan (London and New York), Nova Science(New York), Wisdom House, Longman and Ashgate (London) and contributed a large number of research papers in refereed professional journals of India, USA, UK, Cyprus, Malaysia, Singapore, Italy, Bangladesh, Sweden, Korea, the Netherlands and Philippines. He hasprovided short-term consultancy to various organizations including the UGC, Govt. of Malaysia and the UNDP. He is the recipient of the Emerald Award (UK) for academic excellence (2006) and is the Chief Editor of Journal of Human Development.

Download or read book The Food Crisis and Americanism written by William Stull and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Food Rebellions written by Eric Holt-Gimenez and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it returned in 2011 (and is threatening us again in 2012) and remains a painful reality for the world's poor and underserved. Why, in a time of record harvests, are a record number of people going hungry? And why are a handful of corporations making record profits? In Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice, authors Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck offer us the real story behind the global food crisis and document the growing trend of grassroots solutions to hunger spreading around the world. Food Rebellions! contains up to date information about the current political and economic realities of our food systems. Anchored in political economy and an historical perspective, it is a valuable academic resource for understanding the root causes of hunger, growing inequality, the industrial agri-foods complex, and political unrest. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Holt-Giménez and Patel give a detailed historical analysis of the events that led to the global food crisis and document the grassroots initiatives of social movements working to forge food sovereignty around the world. These social movements and this inspiring book compel readers to confront the crucial question: Who is hungry, why, and what can we do about it?