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9789280809855

Who's Hungry? and How Do We Know?

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  • ISBN13:

    9789280809855

  • ISBN10:

    9280809857

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-02-01
  • Publisher: United Nations Univ
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Summary

This book recognizes that any attempt to reduce hunger requires a sound understanding of which people are affected. It differentiates between food shortage (regional food scarcity), food poverty (inadequate household food supplies), and food deprivation (individual malnutrition) in order to identify the causes of hunger and recommend ways to effectively target interventions. It also focuses on a critical second question--how do we know who the hungry are?The authors explain commonly-used means of measuring hunger, the assumptions embedded in these measures, and what can and cannot be concluded from the evidence. They examine how rules for food distribution operate under normal versus crisis conditions. The shortage/poverty/deprivation framework is designed to call attention to hunger even when food is abundant, as well as to learn how hunger is avoided even when food is scarce. With many tools in place for combating hunger, the book draws attention to the policies that are working and to the individuals, households, and communities that are underserved. The book refines common thinking about the underlying causes of hunger by examining who are most affected.

Table of Contents

Preface ix(2)
Acknowledgements xi
1 Introduction
1(19)
Laurie F. DeRose
Sara R. Millman
Framework: Food shortage, food poverty, food deprivation
1(1)
Links between levels of hunger
2(3)
Why hunger matters
5(10)
Organization of the volume
15(2)
Works cited
17(3)
2 Measuring hunger
20(33)
Sara R. Millman
Laurie F. DeRose
Input: Enough to eat?
21(16)
Output: Nutritional outcomes
37(10)
Relations among the hunger indicators
47(2)
Notes
49(1)
Works cited
49(4)
3 Food shortage
53(39)
Ellen Messer
Laurie F. DeRose
Is there a world food shortage?
54(3)
Where are there regional food shortages?
57(2)
How common are country-level food shortages?
59(1)
Causes of shortage
60(22)
The relationship between drought and famine
82(4)
Ecological and political aspects of food shortage in the 1990s
86(1)
Notes
87(1)
Works cited
88(4)
4 Food poverty
92(39)
Laurie F. DeRose
Causes of food poverty
92(14)
Kinds of data
106(14)
Case study: The importance of non-market entitlements
120(1)
Policy recommendations to reduce food poverty
121(3)
Summary and conclusions
124(1)
Works cited
125(6)
5 Food deprivation
131(33)
Sara R. Millman
Laurie F. DeRose
Causes of deprivation
131(2)
Measurement of food deprivation
133(4)
Evidence
137(21)
Conclusions
158(2)
Notes
160(1)
Works cited
160(4)
6 Conflict as a cause of hunger
164(17)
Ellen Messer
Food shortage related to conflict
166(4)
Food poverty related to conflict
170(1)
Distribution of conflict-related food poverty
171(1)
Food deprivation related to conflict
172(1)
The hunger costs of sanctions
173(1)
Underlying conditions
173(1)
Humanitarian and political principles and institutions limiting conflict-related hunger
174(2)
Measuring the "hunger" costs of conflict
176(3)
Conclusions
179(1)
Notes
179(1)
Works cited
179(2)
7 Conclusions
181(8)
Ellen Messer
Patterns of risk
181(4)
Policy implications
185(2)
Synthesis
187(1)
Works cited
188(1)
Index 189

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