Hunger and Poverty in South Asia
Author: John Albert Rorabacher
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9788121210270
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Author: John Albert Rorabacher
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9788121210270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9290926678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnsuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world's (and especially Asia's) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This publication discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it.
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Publisher: Academic Foundation
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9788171886142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes a DVD entitled "Diversity and Food Sovereignty" a collection of three farmer-made films and their message.
Author: Nick Cullather
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0674058828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.
Author: Nagesh Kumar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2019-08-02
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1000698459
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security challenges in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition – it accounts for nearly one-third of food-insecure people on the planet, with every third child suffering from stunting due to malnutrition. Similar food preferences, production systems, and the transboundary nature of agrarian ecosystems call for coordinated action by South Asian countries, complementing national actions dealing with food security challenges. In this volume, leading experts discuss the perspectives of key South Asian countries in leveraging regional cooperation for addressing food security challenges and reflect on the potential of cooperative actions in different areas. The book proposes a ten-point regional policy agenda covering cooperation for combatting climate change, regional trade liberalization, operationalization of regional food reserves, leveraging technology, sharing of good practices, regional institution building, coordinated positions in multilateral trade negotiations, addressing trans-boundary outbreak of livestock diseases, strengthening food safety standards, and the management of shared natural resources. A key volume on accomplishing SDGs in the South Asian context, this book will be of immense interest to policy makers, researchers, and development practitioners. It is also essential reading for scholars and researchers in the areas of development studies, South Asia studies, food security, environment and sustainability.
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9292542257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis synthesis report is the result of close, collaborative research initiated by the Asian Development Bank in partnership with Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia. Fourteen background papers were commissioned to investigate food security issues particularly pertinent for Asia and the Pacific. The report synthesizes and collates the primary findings from these papers to articulate key policy challenges and opportunities related to food security in the region.
Author: Pradeep Chaturvedi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9788170229728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributed articles discussed at national consultations during 2001.
Author: Swati Narayan
Publisher: Oxfam
Published:
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1848149786
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 28
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Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9788171885
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