Causes of hunger

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Archive
cg.number19
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Marc J.
dc.contributor.authorReeves, Don
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T12:48:40Zen
dc.date.available2024-10-24T12:48:40Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/157296
dc.titleCauses of hungeren
dcterms.abstractThe persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is the most profound moral contradiction of our age. Nearly 800 million people in the developing world (20 percent of the total population) are chronically undernourished. At least 2 billion suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Yet since the mid-1970s the world has produced enough food to provide everyone with a minimally adequate diet. Hunger is one piece of a complex of interrelated social ills. It is linked intricately to global economic, political, and social power structures; modes of development and consumption; population dynamics; and social biases based on race, ethnicity, gender, and age. The world community has both the knowledge and the resources to eliminate hunger. Putting these tools to work requires us to ground our choices--small and large, individual and collective, political and economic -- in ethical values, including empowerment and justice, stewardship of common resources for the common good, and affirmation of diversity.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCohen, Marc J.; Reeves, Don. 1995. Causes of hunger. 2020 Policy Brief 19. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157296en
dcterms.extent2 p.
dcterms.isPartOf2020 Policy Briefen
dcterms.issued1995
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130606
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.subjecthealthen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectmalnutritionen
dcterms.typeBrief

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