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Preface | p. ix |
Nutrition Problems | p. 1 |
Numbers and Definitions | p. 1 |
Food Security versus Nutrition Security | p. 4 |
Other Perspectives | p. 7 |
Achieve Sustainability or End Hunger? | p. 9 |
Indifference? | p. 13 |
Conflicting Interests | p. 16 |
Invest in Ending Hunger? | p. 20 |
The Copenhagen Confusion | p. 22 |
Hunger as Structural Violence | p. 23 |
The Moral Dimension-Compassion | p. 24 |
Transcending Hunger | p. 26 |
Widening Gaps | p. 28 |
Evidence of Widening Gaps | p. 28 |
Explanation | p. 32 |
The Globalization of Widening Gaps | p. 37 |
Self-Reliant Communities | p. 38 |
Food Trade | p. 41 |
Concentration of Wealth and Power | p. 41 |
Subsidies | p. 44 |
Foreign Interests | p. 46 |
Grabbing Land and Sea | p. 48 |
Free Trade Agreements | p. 56 |
Non-Market Values | p. 58 |
Food Trade | p. 60 |
Remedies | p. 62 |
Rights-Based Social Systems | p. 65 |
The Essence of Rights Systems | p. 65 |
Varieties of Rights | p. 66 |
Rights-Based Programs in Schools | p. 67 |
Human Rights Principles | p. 70 |
The Human Right to Adequate Food | p. 74 |
Entitlements | p. 74 |
The Human Right to an Adequate Standard of Living | p. 75 |
Global Recognition of the Right to Food | p. 76 |
UN General Comment 12 | p. 79 |
Voluntary Guidelines | p. 81 |
Dignity | p. 83 |
Global Obligations | p. 86 |
The Global Food System | p. 86 |
Global Obligations | p. 87 |
The Right to Food Viewed Globally | p. 89 |
Levels of Global Obligation | p. 90 |
The Need for Planning | p. 92 |
Nutritional Safety Nets | p. 94 |
Defining Nutritional Safety Nets | p. 94 |
Guaranteed Safety Nets | p. 97 |
Designing Guaranteed Nutritional Safety Nets | p. 99 |
Global Nutritional Safety Nets | p. 103 |
Cautions | p. 105 |
The Role of International Law | p. 107 |
Key Features of Safety Net Programs | p. 109 |
Household Food Production | p. 110 |
Methods of Household Food Production | p. 111 |
Beyond Primary Production | p. 113 |
Cautions | p. 114 |
Networking | p. 117 |
Community-Based Food Production | p. 118 |
The Role of Government | p. 119 |
Political Significance | p. 120 |
Community-Based Nutrition Security | p. 122 |
Localization and Its Limits | p. 122 |
Priority on Self-Reliance, Not Self-Sufficiency | p. 124 |
Food Sovereignty | p. 130 |
Democracy Is Not Enough | p. 133 |
The Need for Community | p. 134 |
Food/Nutrition Policy Councils | p. 142 |
A Forum on Nutrition Issues | p. 142 |
Task Forces | p. 144 |
Describing Food Systems | p. 147 |
Assessing Food Systems | p. 148 |
Improving Food Systems | p. 149 |
Nutrition Policy Councils and Rights | p. 151 |
The Mission of Nutrition Policy Councils | p. 152 |
Diagnosing Global Approaches | p. 154 |
The Global Efforts | p. 154 |
The Millennium Promise | p. 158 |
The Medical Approach to Malnutrition | p. 159 |
Coordination Without Planning | p. 164 |
Modest Aspirations | p. 167 |
Multi-Level Strategic Planning | p. 170 |
Inclusive Global Planning | p. 172 |
Global Support for Local Self-Reliance | p. 174 |
Subsidiarity | p. 177 |
The Cellular Approach | p. 178 |
Layered Nutrition Policy Councils | p. 180 |
Building the Motivation to End Hunger | p. 182 |
Appendix: American Samoa Executive Order | p. 185 |
Bibliography | p. 191 |
Index | p. 217 |
About the Author | p. 225 |
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