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The new breadline : hunger and hope in the twenty-first century
\"The director of Haiti's World Food Program takes aim at the global food crisis-revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere, and what steps we can take to change course\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The unending hunger
Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how \"food security\" comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women's relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.
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Shadow Negotiators
Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate
that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence
the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade
lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN
organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the WTO,
Matias E. Margulis argues that these organizations have acted as
\"shadow negotiators\" engaged in political actions intended to alter
the trajectory and results of multilateral trade negotiations. He
draws on analysis of one of the most contested issues in global
trade politics, agricultural trade liberalization, to demonstrate
interventions by four different UN organizations-the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the
Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (SRRTF).
By identifying several novel intervention strategies used by UN
actors to shape the rules of global trade, this book shows that UN
organizations chose to intervene in trade lawmaking not out of
competition with the WTO or ideological resistance to trade
liberalization, but out of concerns that specific trade rules could
have negative consequences for world food security-an outcome these
organizations viewed as undermining their social purpose to reduce
world hunger and protect the human right to food.
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Beginning to end hunger : food and the environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and beyond
\"Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world's most successful city food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, malnutrition in Belo Horizonte has declined dramatically, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil's renowned Zero Hunger programs. The Municipal Secretariat's work with local family farmers also offers a glimpse of how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of the path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. This case study by M. Jahi Chappell shows the vital importance of holistic approaches to food security, offers ideas on how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for making policy change happen. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Emerging Technologies for Promoting Food Security - Overcoming the World Food Crisis
This book discusses rising energy prices, increased biofuel use, water scarcity, and the rising world population, all factors that directly affect worldwide food security. The book examines the range of approaches to promoting global food security, including novel and existing agricultural and husbandry techniques for safe and sustainable food production. It is divided into three parts beginning with an overview of food security, an analysis of key drivers of food insecurity, and nutrition and food security. Part Two examines emerging technologies for plant and animal food security, with subsequent chapters discussing topics from genetic and aquaculture technologies, pest and disease control, environmental and policy issues affecting food security, and an in-depth analysis of water management and methods to reduce post-harvest losses.
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The unending hunger : tracing women and food insecurity across borders
\"Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in women's experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders, and how 'food security' comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding women's relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Shadow Negotiators
Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Intervention by International Organizations -- 2. The Regime Complex for Food Security -- 3. The FAO: Mobilizing States to Protect Food Security -- 4. Don't Take Food from the Starving The WFP Publicly Shames WTO Members -- 5. The OHCHR Invokes Human Rights at the WTO -- 6. The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food \"Food Security Hostage to Trade\" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
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On feeding the masses : an anatomy of regulatory failure in China
Focuses on the oft-cited but ultimately overlooked concept of scale to identify the root causes of China's regulatory failures in food safety. --Page [i].
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How Much Does the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Reduce Food Insecurity?
Nearly 15% of all U.S. households and 40% of near-poor households were food insecure in 2009. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the cornerstone of federal food assistance programs and serves as the first line of defense against food-related hardship. This paper measures the effectiveness of SNAP in reducing food insecurity using an instrumental variables approach to control for selection. Our results suggest that receipt of SNAP benefits reduces the likelihood of being food insecure by roughly 30% and reduces the likelihood of being very food insecure by 20%.
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