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Author: Farooq Ahmed Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Household Food Insecurity is the underlying cause of hunger and maternal-child undernutrition. This study aims to understand household experiences, practices, and perceptions regarding food insecurity and dietary diversity at the community level in one of the most underdeveloped districts, Rajanpur, in South-Punjab. This study majorly used ethnographic research methods for data collection, supplemented by a food insecurity survey. The study attempted to investigate households' inability to access food and to analyze poor mothers' perspectives and practices regarding daily diet, healthy and unsafe foods, along with variety and diversity of diet. Data found that immediate and the most conspicuous problem was the limited diversity of food. Overall, the low income of poor households determined the low quality of the diet. The foods unavailable or scarce in the households were perceived as healthy foods. Data revealed lowincome households had to eat monotonous, old, used, expired and rotten foods. Poor rural households had to sell off their highly energetic food items (honey, chicken, milk, purified butter, and eggs) only because they wanted to earn a little amount of money, which makes poor rural mothers and children food insecure. Besides, local markets also sell out low-quality foods. The most serious issue was inflation, which squeezes the poor's buying capacity. Data analysis revealed that micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children (hidden hunger) resulted owing to the consumption of less diverse food. The analysis informs that although there was no absolute hunger in the community, limited diet diversity or lack of access to fruit, meat and milk were the real barriers for poor households because of high inflation. Recommendations include reducing inequalities, enhancing household income, controlling food prices, and promoting a culture of diverse food instead of commercialization is highly recommended to alleviate hunger and malnutrition at the micro-level.
Author: Farooq Ahmed Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Household Food Insecurity is the underlying cause of hunger and maternal-child undernutrition. This study aims to understand household experiences, practices, and perceptions regarding food insecurity and dietary diversity at the community level in one of the most underdeveloped districts, Rajanpur, in South-Punjab. This study majorly used ethnographic research methods for data collection, supplemented by a food insecurity survey. The study attempted to investigate households' inability to access food and to analyze poor mothers' perspectives and practices regarding daily diet, healthy and unsafe foods, along with variety and diversity of diet. Data found that immediate and the most conspicuous problem was the limited diversity of food. Overall, the low income of poor households determined the low quality of the diet. The foods unavailable or scarce in the households were perceived as healthy foods. Data revealed lowincome households had to eat monotonous, old, used, expired and rotten foods. Poor rural households had to sell off their highly energetic food items (honey, chicken, milk, purified butter, and eggs) only because they wanted to earn a little amount of money, which makes poor rural mothers and children food insecure. Besides, local markets also sell out low-quality foods. The most serious issue was inflation, which squeezes the poor's buying capacity. Data analysis revealed that micronutrient deficiencies in mothers and children (hidden hunger) resulted owing to the consumption of less diverse food. The analysis informs that although there was no absolute hunger in the community, limited diet diversity or lack of access to fruit, meat and milk were the real barriers for poor households because of high inflation. Recommendations include reducing inequalities, enhancing household income, controlling food prices, and promoting a culture of diverse food instead of commercialization is highly recommended to alleviate hunger and malnutrition at the micro-level.
Author: Ali, Mubarik Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 76
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The fertilizer industry in Pakistan, with US$3.74 billion per year in sales, now stands at a crossroads where, after an initial substantial contribution in boosting crop productivity, its future potential is being challenged. Fertilizer-responsive crop varieties, supplementary irrigation water, and a favorable policy environment in Pakistan have induced fast growth in fertilizer demand. On the supply side, the availability of gas at low prices along with a favorable investment environment resulted in the buildup of excessive manufacturing capacity. But recently, a shortage of gas and monopolistic behavior has led to underutilization and greater imports. Restrictive laws put fertilizer processing and marketing in a few hands, which has also affected its efficiency. Moreover, the yield response of fertilizer has tapered off and per hectare use is fast reaching its optimal level. The existing policy environment leads to higher costs, inefficient use, and a heavy burden on the government as it charges one-fourth of the market price for feedstock gas used in fertilizer manufacturing. In addition, the government imports urea and absorbs the difference in international and domestic prices.
Author: Farhana Sultana Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429843127 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Scholarship on the right to water has proliferated in interesting and unexpected ways in recent years. This book broadens existing discussions on the right to water in order to shed critical light on the pathways, pitfalls, prospects, and constraints that exist in achieving global goals, as well as advancing debates around water governance and water justice. The book shows how both discourses and struggles around the right to water have opened new perspectives, and possibilities in water governance, fostering new collective and moral claims for water justice, while effecting changes in laws and policies around the world. In light of the 2010 UN ratification on the human right to water and sanitation, shifts have taken place in policy, legal frameworks, local implementation, as well as in national dialogues. Chapters in the book illustrate the novel ways in which the right to water has been taken up in locations drawn globally, highlighting the material politics that are enabled and negotiated through this framework in order to address ongoing water insecurities. This book reflects the urgent need to take stock of debates in light of new concerns around post-neoliberal political developments, the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change, the transition from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the mobilizations around the right to water in the global North. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of water governance, environmental policy, politics, geography, and law. It will be of great interest to policymakers and practitioners working in water governance, as well as the human right to water and sanitation.
Author: Ashbindu Singh Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9401785988 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 394
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Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different continents representing 14 different universities, 8 government agencies and two UN agencies. Chapters detail critical components of early warning systems, ways to identify vulnerable communities, predict hazards and deliver information. Unique satellite images illustrate the transnational impact of disasters, while case studies provide detailed examples of warning systems. With contributors from the fields of economics, ethics, meteorology, geography and biology, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in disaster risk reduction or climate change.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) ISBN: 9789251062883 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 0
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global underinvestment and concludes that structural problems of underinvestment have impeded progress towards the World Food Summit goal and the first Millennium Development Goal hunger reduction target. This disappointing state of affairs has been exacerbated by first the food crisis and now the global economic crisis that, together, have increased the number of undernourished people in the world to more than one billion for the first time since 1970. This crisis is different from the crisis developing countries have experienced in the past. In the context of the enormous financial pressures faced by governments, the twin-track approach remains an effective way to address growing levels of hunger in the world. Investments in the agriculture sector, especially for public goods, will be critical if hunger is to be eradicated. Also published in Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.
Author: Atta-Ur- Rahman Publisher: Springer ISBN: 443155369X Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 391
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This book is a pioneering regional work and provides a balanced approach of theory and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The book analytically discusses the status of DRR and draws examples and lessons from national and community-level programs and projects and events in the country. The book covers different types of disasters facing Pakistan, including geo-physical and hydro-meteorological hazards. This work incorporates and draws some of the key lessons learned from the pre-disaster and disaster phases to the post-disaster phase, providing an effective framework in the form of those lessons. The rich content is based on a selection of available documents, a consultative workshop with academicians from different universities undertaking DRR higher education programs, and the editors’ own knowledge and experience in the field. Special emphasis is given to analyzing field experiences from academic perspectives, and pinpointing key issues and the policy relevance of DRR. Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Pakistan is organized into three sections with a total of 20 chapters. Section one provides the outline and basics of DRR strategies applied at the national level with supporting examples from a global review. Section two specifically highlights the wide ranges of hazards experienced in Pakistan and presents examples, policy options, institutional set-ups, risk reduction strategies, and key lessons learned. The third section of the book is given to approaches and issues of DRR practices with examples of disaster responses.
Author: Brijinder Singh Publisher: Harriman House ISBN: 9780857196231 Category : India Languages : en Pages : 0
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"This book is a companion volume of the Book entitled Don't Break Up India on martydom of her husband, Shadeed Sardar Nanak Singh, during the partition of India in 1947."
Author: Christopher B. Barrett Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135992967 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 344
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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.
Author: Farooq Ahmed
Author: Farooq Ahmed
Author: Aazar Bhandara
Author: Ali, Mubarik
Author: Farhana Sultana
Author: Ashbindu Singh
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Author: Atta-Ur- Rahman
Author: Brijinder Singh
Author: Christopher B. Barrett