1st Edition

The Hunger Report 1995 The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Edited By E. Messer, P. Uvin Copyright 1996
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Hunger Report 1995 highlights progress during the past five years on the problems of food shortage, poverty-related hunger, maternal-child nutrition and health, and micronutrient malnutrition. It is constructed from papers and discussions presented at the five-year-follow-up to the Bellagio Declaration, 'Overcoming Hunger in the 1990s' (1989). Individual essays by hunger researchers, monitors, and policy makers assess advances in achieving the Bellagio goals, which are: 1) to end famine deaths, especially by moving food into zones of armed conflict; 2) to end hunger in half the world's poorest households; 3) to eliminate at least half the hunger of women and children by expanding maternal-child health coverage; and 4) to eliminate vitamin A and iodine deficiencies as public health problems.

    Tables and Figures, Foreword, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Acronyms and Abbreviations, 1 The State of World Hunger, 2 Food Wars: Hunger as a Weapon of War in 1994, 3 Global Changes Since 1989, 4 The Human Right to Food (1989–1994), 5 Linking the Grassroots to the Summit, 6 Progress in Overcoming Hunger in China: 1989–1994, 7 Progress in Overcoming Hunger in Southeast Asia: 1989–1994, 8 Overcoming Hunger and Malnutrition: The Indonesian Experience, 9 Progress in Overcoming Micronutrient Deficiencies: 1989–1994, 10 Is Childhood Malnutrition Being Overcome?, 11 Trends in Household Poverty and Hunger, Discussion—Is Economic Growth Really the Remedy for Overcoming Hunger and Poverty?, 12 The Future of Food Trade and Food Aid in a Liberalizing Global Economy, 13 Visions of the Future: Food, Hunger and Nutrition, 14 Ending Hunger: 1999 and Beyond, The Salaya Statement on Ending Hunger, List of Contributors

    Biography

    E. Messer, P. Uvin