The atlas of world hunger
Thomas J. Bassett Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson.
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chicago ; London : : University of Chicago Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (217 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - pt. 1. Locating hunger -- pt. 2. The sources of hunger.. - Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat." The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry. In 2006, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations counted 850 million hungry people worldwide, but as food prices soared, an additional 100 million or more who were vulnerable succumbed to food insecurity.If hunger were simply a matter of food production, no o
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| ISBN | 0226039072. - 9780226039077
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