1st Edition
Hunger and Markets World Hunger Series
By United Nations World Food Programme
Copyright 2009
194 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hunger and Markets is the third volume of the UN World Food Programme's World Hunger Series - created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and... Read more
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
Biography
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.
