Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
450
result(s) for
"Food relief -- International cooperation"
Sort by:
Hunger in the Balance
Food aid has become a contentious issue in recent decades, with sharp disagreements over genetically modified crops, agricultural subsidies, and ways of guaranteeing food security in the face of successive global food crises. InHunger in the Balance, Jennifer Clapp provides a timely and comprehensive account of the contemporary politics of food aid, explaining the origins and outcomes of recent clashes between donor nations-and between donors and recipients.
She identifies fundamental disputes between donors over \"tied\" food aid, which requires that food be sourced in the donor country, versus \"untied\" aid, which provides cash to purchase food closer to the source of hunger. These debates have been especially intense between the major food aid donors, particularly the European Union and the United States. Similarly, the EU's rejection of GMO agricultural imports has raised concerns among recipients about accepting GMO foodstuffs from the United States. For the several hundred million people who at present have little choice but to rely on food aid for their daily survival, Clapp concludes, the consequences of these political differences are profound.
eBook
Feeding the hungry : advocacy and blame in the global fight against hunger
Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the Hungry, Michelle Jurkovich examines the social and normative environments in which international anti-hunger organizations are working and argues that despite international law ascribing responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food of their citizens, there is no shared social consensus on who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem. Drawing on interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger organizations as well as archival research at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the UK National Archives, and the U.S. National Archives, Jurkovich provides a new analytic model of transnational advocacy.
In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social right—the right to food—Jurkovich challenges existing understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and laws. Most important, Feeding the Hungry provides an expanded conceptual tool kit with which we can examine and understand the social and moral forces at play in rights advocacy.
eBook
The good garden : how one family went from hunger to having enough
Eleven-year-old Marâia Luz and her family have a small farm in Honduras, but may not have enough food to sustain them for the year, so Mar\\74\\ia's father must leave home to find work, leaving her in charge of the garden. Includes helpful tips and organizations that are set up to help aid in the global food crisis.
Book
The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities
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
eBook
Feeding the Hungry
Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and
human security challenges in the world. In Feeding the
Hungry , Michelle Jurkovich examines the social and normative
environments in which international anti-hunger organizations are
working and argues that despite international law ascribing
responsibility to national governments to ensure the right to food
of their citizens, there is no shared social consensus on
who ought to do what to solve the hunger problem.
Drawing on interviews with staff at top international anti-hunger
organizations as well as archival research at the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization, the UK National Archives, and
the U.S. National Archives, Jurkovich provides a new analytic model
of transnational advocacy.
In investigating advocacy around a critical economic and social
right-the right to food-Jurkovich challenges existing
understandings of the relationships among human rights, norms, and
laws. Most important, Feeding the Hungry provides an
expanded conceptual tool kit with which we can examine and
understand the social and moral forces at play in rights
advocacy.
eBook
Delivering Performance in Food Supply Chains
Food and drink supply chains are complex, continually changing systems, involving many participants. They present stakeholders across the food and drinks industries with considerable challenges. Delivering performance in food supply chains offers expert perspectives to help practitioners and academics to improve their supply chain operations.The Editors have identified six key challenges in managing food and drinks supply chains. Each section of the book focuses on one of these important issues. The first chapters consider the fundamental role of relationship management in supply chains. The next section discusses another significant issue: aligning supply and demand. Part three considers five different approaches to effective and efficient process management, while quality and safety management, an issue food companies need to take very seriously, is subject of the next section. Parts five and six review issues which are currently driving change in food supply chains: the effective use of new technologies and the desire to deliver food sustainably and responsibly.With expert contributions from leaders in their fields, Delivering performance in food supply chains will help practitioners and academics to understand different approaches in supply chain management, explore alternative methods and develop more effective systems. Considers the fundamental role of relationship management in supply chains including an overview of performance measurement in the management of food supply chainsDiscusses the alignment of supply and demand in food supply chains and reviews sales and operations planning and marketing strategies for competitive advantage in the food industryProvides an overview of the effective use of new technologies and those that will be used in the future to deliver food sustainably and reliably
eBook
The global food crisis : governance challenges and opportunities / Jennifer Clapp and Marc J. Cohen, editors
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. 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.
eBook
Food aid after fifty years
This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter. This book will prove vital to students of development economics and development studies and those working in the field.
eBook