Hunger and Markets - World Hunger Series

Informationen zum Autor The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was set up over 45 years ago to provide emergency food assistance! to stop hunger and thus help break the cycle of poverty. In 2008! WFP food assistance reached nearly 100 million people in about 80 countries. Zusammenfassung The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities markets generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. This book explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operations of markets. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Setting the Stage 1. Hunger 2. Markets 3. High Food Prices: Trends, Causes and Impacts Part II: Analysis 4. Households, Hunger and Markets 5. Access to Markets 6 .Availability of and Access to Nutritious Food 7. Vulnerability, Risk and Markets 8. Markets in Emergencies Part III: Actions and the Way Forward 9. Making Markets Work for the Hungry Poor and Supplementing Them Where Necessary 10. The Way Forward: Ten Priority Actions to Help Markets Break the Hunger-Poverty Trap Part IV: Resource Compendium Notes Part V: Annexes

Product details

• Authors: United Nations World Food Programme, World Food Programme, United Nations World Food Programme
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9781844078387
• ISBN: 978-1-84407-838-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: World Hunger Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; NATURE / Ecology, LAW / Commercial / International Trade, Science / Environmental Science, Human Geography, Development Studies