This book provides a comprehensive history of the UN World Food Programme. It provides details of the diversity and versatility of food aid in assisting developing countries in many fields of development and its vital role in meeting natural and man-made disasters. It contains 9 chapters and a...

This book focuses on the transformation of the World Food Programme (WFP) into the world's largest humanitarian agency, providing an in-depth account of responses to increasingly large and complex natural and man-made disasters. It examines food aid and looks to the new modalities that are required ...

This report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet. Since its 2017 edition, this report has repeatedly highlighted that...

This book analyses the food security problems of urban areas in India by bringing existing data together in a comprehensive manner. It uses data for the second half of the 1990s, except in cases where it has not been available for this period. Part I (chapters 1-6) looks at urban food insecurity...

Food insecurity and malnutrition are major international concerns, especially in rural areas. At the global scale, they have received considerable attention and investment, but the results achieved so far have been mixed. Some countries have made progress at the national level, but still have many...

This report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2017, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2018 at the global and regional levels. The report looks at the impacts of greater global integration (including the movement of goods, investment, people, and...

This book provides an account of the practical experience of donors and recipient countries with food aid. It contributes to a better understanding of food aid and the international discussion concerning its future use. Indications are that food aid will be needed on an increasing scale during the...

Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether...

This report monitors progress towards eliminating hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide as of 2019. Part 1 presents the most recent trends in hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms with a focus on monitoring progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Targets 2.1...

The objective of publishing this book is to let the general public have a better understanding of the food security situation in China and better comprehension of the merit of allocating land through market mechanism. In addition, it makes the public aware of the inefficiencies of current...