Hunger Report 1995: The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Ellen Messer, "Hunger Report 1995: The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island"
Publisher: Routledge | 1996-05-01 | ISBN 9056995189 | PDF | 280 pages | 5.0 MB
Publisher: Routledge | 1996-05-01 | ISBN 9056995189 | PDF | 280 pages | 5.0 MB
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.
After a half decade of positive trends in food supply, economic development, and nutrition improvements, hunger is still pervasive and forbids complacency. Sweeping changes in global politics and …