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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...

Author(s)
Shaw, D. J.
Publisher
Palgrave Publishers Ltd, Basingstoke, UK
Citation
The UN world food programme and the development of food aid, 2001, pp 302 pp.
Abstract

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 ...

Author(s)
Shaw, D. J.
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke, UK
Citation
The world's largest humanitarian agency: the transformation of the UN World Food Programme and of food aid, 2011, pp xxvi + 429 pp.
Abstract

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...

Author(s)
Vepa, S. S.; Rukmani, R.; Anuradha, G.; Manjula, M.; Anandakumar, B.; Krishnakumar, S.; Mitra, S.
Publisher
M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India
Citation
Food insecurity atlas of urban India, 2004, pp xvi + 218 pp.
Abstract

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...

Publisher
OECD Development Centre, Paris, France
Citation
Adopting a territorial approach to food security and nutrition policy, 2016, pp 156 pp.
Abstract

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...

Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
2018 Global Food Policy Report, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2018, pp iv + 142 pp.
Abstract

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...

Publisher
James Currey Publisher, Rome; World Food Programme in association with London, UK, Italy
Citation
World food aid: experiences of recipients & donors., 1993, pp xii + 244 pp.
Abstract

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...

Author(s)
Ewing-Chow, M.; Vilarasau Slade, M.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
International trade and food security: exploring collective food security in Asia, 2016, pp 232 pp.
Abstract

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...

Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Citation
The state of food security and nutrition in the world - safeguarding against economic slowdowns and downturns, 2019, pp xxi + 212 pp.
Abstract

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...

Author(s)
Mao YuShi; Zhao Nong; Yang XiaoJing
Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Co., London, UK
Citation
Food security and farm land protection in China, 2013, pp 388 pp.
Abstract

From soil degradation and biodiversity loss to the coexistence of malnutrition and obesity, many of the largest challenges facing humanity today are underpinned by food and agriculture systems. In order to alleviate and resolve them, global governance of food and agriculture needs to be reformed....

Author(s)
Johnson, H.
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK
Citation
International agricultural law and policy: a rights-based approach to food security, 2018, pp 368 pp.

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