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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.
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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.
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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.
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Evidence synthesis communities in low-income and middle-income countries and the COVID-19 response
In line with WHO's global roadmap for COVID-19 research,1 we are working to summarise the available research to support evidence-informed decision making across all sectors for immediate and anticipated challenges, within the COVID-19 Evidence Network to support Decision-making (COVID-END). Weak health systems in LMICs are generally struggling to make the necessary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the prevalence of comorbidities are putting our populations at increased risk of the direct and indirect consequences of the pandemic.2 Paramount to poorer and conflict-affected states are the pre-existing, and rapidly worsening, vulnerabilities due to inequalities and inequities, unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition.3 Violence against women and children, unintended pregnancies, and risks to incarcerated populations are all escalating, as are disruptions to child vaccination programmes.4 In addition to the mental health strain caused by a pandemic,5 lockdowns, and resulting social and economic pressures, we are observing fear and stigma associated with COVID-19, quarantine, and isolation.6 Home evictions linked to job losses, low levels of public health information in some settings, and the presence of migrant workers and refugees have exacerbated xenophobia and social unrest in some LMICs.7 Older people, migrant workers, refugees, and students have all found themselves vulnerable and inadequately supported.8 In many countries, these challenges have come on top of entrenched economic, social, and political pressures and present considerable demands on researchers seeking to generate evidence in the COVID-19 response. The value of the knowledge translation efforts and rapid response mechanisms to provide timely evidence synthesis is coming into its own, with evidence reaching the highest levels of governments.
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Syndemic Challenges: Addressing the Resurgence of Mpox Amidst Concurrent Outbreaks in the DRC
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces a syndemic of infectious diseases, including monkeypox (mpox), cholera, measles, anthrax, and plague, worsening public health challenges and socioeconomic disparities. This review synthesizes and discusses epidemiological data and consequences of simultaneous outbreaks in the DRC between January 2023 and March 2024. The findings highlight a 6.7% fatality rate and 3319 confirmed cases of mpox, with significant outbreaks in Kinshasa and 22 other provinces. Anthrax occasionally surfaced among cattle‐raising villages, measles affected fewer than five children susceptible to the disease, and cholera outbreaks persisted in North Kivu, South Kivu, and Tanganyika. Plague incidences, mostly bubonic, have been reported in Ituri province. Vulnerable groups, including children, mothers, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems, face increased risks due to poor healthcare access, hunger, and underlying medical conditions. Cultural beliefs, healthcare system issues, and socioeconomic instability impede effective response tactics. This strain on the fragile healthcare system highlights the need for increased surveillance, immunization efforts, and community involvement. To mitigate the effects of syndemic outbreaks, strengthening the DRC’s health systems through international cooperation, integrated public health initiatives, and improved access to healthcare is crucial.
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Accounting for Hunger
The challenge of global hunger is now high on the agenda of governments and international policy-makers. This new work contributes to addressing that challenge, by looking at the obstacles which stand in the way of implementing a right to food in the era of globalisation. The book describes the current situation of global hunger; it considers how it relates both to the development of food systems and to the merger of the food and energy markets; and it explains how the right to food contributes to identifying solutions at the domestic and international levels. The right to food, it argues, can only be realised if governance improves at the domestic level, and if the international environment enables governments to adopt appropriate policies, for which they require a certain policy space. The essays in this book demonstrate that the current regimes of trade, investment and food aid, as well as the development of biofuels production - all of which contribute to define the international context in which states implement such reforms - should be reshaped if national efforts are to be successful. The implication is that extraterritorial human rights obligations of states (their obligations to respect the right to food beyond their national territories, for instance in their food aid, investment or trade policies), as well as the strengthening of global governance of food security (as is currently being attempted with the reform of the Committee on World Food Security in Rome), have a key role to fulfill: domestic reforms will not achieve sustainable results unless the international environment is more enabling of the efforts of governments acting individually. In this reform process, accountability both at the domestic and international level is essential if sustainable progress is to be achieved in combating global hunger.
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The potential impact of plant biotechnology on the Millennium Development Goals
Research in our laboratory is supported by Ministry of Science and Innovation-MICINN, Spain (Grant BFU2007-61413); European Research Council Advanced Grant BIOFORCE; Center Consolider, MICINN, Spain; COST Action FA0804, Associated Unit CAVA and SmartCell, FP7 Integrated project.
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Breaking the cycle: drought and hunger in Kenya
Hunger is an ever-present spectre in much of Kenya, where close to half the population is below the poverty line, and about three-quarters work in subsistence agriculture. Even in 2012, which was considered a good year, an estimated 2 million people did not have enough to eat.
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