Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service. International Economics Division
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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service. International Economics Division
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Category : Food industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Abstract: World food production fell nearly 2.5 percent in 1979, the first decline in 7 years. Although output increased in South and Central America, it declined in most African countries and South Asia. Greatest food needs exist in the sub-Saharan African regions and South Asia, but certain Central American, Caribbean, and South American countries will also require assistance. The report presents data on food production and 1980 outlook for 79 low- and middle-income countries, reviews the 1979 food situation, and describes international and U.S. food aid policies.

Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service
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Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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Abstract: World food production fell nearly 2.5 percent in 1979, the first decline in 7 years. Although output increased in South and Central America, it declined in most African countries and South Asia. Greatest food needs exist in the sub-Saharan African regions and South Asia, but certain Central American, Caribbean, and South American countries will also require assistance. The report presents data on food production and 1980 outlook for 79 low- and middle-income countries, reviews the 1979 food situation, and describes international and U.S. food aid policies.

Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309180368
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The United States is viewed by the world as a country with plenty of food, yet not all households in America are food secure, meaning access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. A proportion of the population experiences food insecurity at some time in a given year because of food deprivation and lack of access to food due to economic resource constraints. Still, food insecurity in the United States is not of the same intensity as in some developing countries. Since 1995 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has annually published statistics on the extent of food insecurity and food insecurity with hunger in U.S. households. These estimates are based on a survey measure developed by the U.S. Food Security Measurement Project, an ongoing collaboration among federal agencies, academic researchers, and private organizations. USDA requested the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies to convene a panel of experts to undertake a two-year study in two phases to review at this 10-year mark the concepts and methodology for measuring food insecurity and hunger and the uses of the measure. In Phase 2 of the study the panel was to consider in more depth the issues raised in Phase 1 relating to the concepts and methods used to measure food security and make recommendations as appropriate. The Committee on National Statistics appointed a panel of 10 experts to examine the above issues. In order to provide timely guidance to USDA, the panel issued an interim Phase 1 report, Measuring Food Insecurity and Hunger: Phase 1 Report. That report presented the panel's preliminary assessments of the food security concepts and definitions; the appropriateness of identifying hunger as a severe range of food insecurity in such a survey-based measurement method; questions for measuring these concepts; and the appropriateness of a household survey for regularly monitoring food security in the U.S. population. It provided interim guidance for the continued production of the food security estimates. This final report primarily focuses on the Phase 2 charge. The major findings and conclusions based on the panel's review and deliberations are summarized.

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Category : Developing countries
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251305722
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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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.

Author: D. Shaw
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230589782
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the numerous attempts made since the Second World War to provide food security for all. It provides a reference source for all those involved and interested in food security issues.

Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781475918762
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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President Ronald Reagans chief advisor on domestic affairs announced in December 1980 that poverty has been virtually wiped out in the United States and the systems of government aid have been a brilliant success. Now, Starving in the Shadow of Plenty lays bare the horrifying truth. For the first time since Robert Kennedy traveled the muddy back roads of Mississippi and the war on poverty rose and fell, starvation in America is documented. Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, twice winner of the Robert Kennedy Memorial Award for articles on hunger, has retraced Kennedys steps and found that Marasmus and Kwashiorkor, the most extreme diseases of protein and calorie deficiency, still exist in the United States today. The author spent seven years traveling across the country and speaking to the hungry in rural shacks, urban ghettos, on Indian reservations and in previously middle class homes. Her book is their story, told in their own words. But it is also the story of federal corruption and abuse. The government of the United States turns countless numbers of eligible people away from existing food programs, it allows millions of infants to be malnourished and it seems to be oblivious to citizens who are starving and dying. Starving in the Shadow of Plenty is the first in a series on hunger in America. The authors newest book, Growing Up Empty, the voices and politics of starving children in America, a 25 year retrospective, will be published by Harper Collins, Cliff Street Books in 2002.

Author: Faye Henderson
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Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1624

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