Food Security and Nutrition: The Global ChallengeUwe Kracht, Manfred Schulz LIT Verlag Münster, 1999 - 692 من الصفحات The persistence of an unacceptably high level of hunger and malnutrition worldwide presents a serious challenge to the world on the threshold of the third millenium. Although enough food is produced to feed mankind, about 840 million people go hungry; among them are 185 million pre-school children that are severely underweight for their age. Since an additional 80 million people have to be fed each year, achieving food security is a central global challenge, if not the most important development issue. The aim of the reader is to analyze actual problems in the field of food security and nutrition and to discuss present and future strategies to overcome hunger. Food security is a complex subject. In order to master this complexity, we distinguish between four dimensions of analyses: Theoretical-analytical, empirical-descriptive, normative-political, institutional. (Series: Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungsländern/Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries - Vol. 50) |
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... Green Revolution , not Green Enough for Asia's Rice Bowl Klaus Lampe 419 21. Technology Generation , Adaptation , Adoption and Impact : Towards a Framework for Understanding and Increasing Research Impact Uma Lele and Javier Ekboir 439 ...
... Green Revolution , not Green Enough for Asia's Rice Bowl Klaus Lampe 419 21. Technology Generation , Adaptation , Adoption and Impact : Towards a Framework for Understanding and Increasing Research Impact Uma Lele and Javier Ekboir 439 ...
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... Green Revolution , with research institutions offering high - yielding crop varieties in combination with other technologies for intensified production . Since then , an optimistic assessment has prevailed in the leading international ...
... Green Revolution , with research institutions offering high - yielding crop varieties in combination with other technologies for intensified production . Since then , an optimistic assessment has prevailed in the leading international ...
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... Green Revolution and others have not . The main development trend of the current decade is the shift from the so far dominant industrial sector to the more and more important role of the tertiary sector of highly qualified services ...
... Green Revolution and others have not . The main development trend of the current decade is the shift from the so far dominant industrial sector to the more and more important role of the tertiary sector of highly qualified services ...
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... Green to the Gene Revolution from a natural and a social scientist point of view . Since the end of the cold war the number of armed conflicts has increased dramatically , and more and more food aid goes into famine prevention ...
... Green to the Gene Revolution from a natural and a social scientist point of view . Since the end of the cold war the number of armed conflicts has increased dramatically , and more and more food aid goes into famine prevention ...
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... green revolution " which will bring about another increase of productivity , comparable in effect to the green revolution in Asian agriculture in the seventies . However , one should perhaps better not expect a very dynamic expansion of ...
... green revolution " which will bring about another increase of productivity , comparable in effect to the green revolution in Asian agriculture in the seventies . However , one should perhaps better not expect a very dynamic expansion of ...
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الصفحة 331 - UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of...
الصفحة 333 - The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions.
الصفحة 335 - To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge, by disseminating knowledge of the principles of nutrition and by developing or reforming agrarian systems in such a way as to achieve the most efficient development and utilization of natural resources; (b) Taking into account the problems of both food-importing and food-exporting countries, to ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to need.
الصفحة 335 - To ensure that all segments of society, in particular parents and children, are informed, have access to education and are supported in the use of basic knowledge of child health and nutrition, the advantages of breast-feeding...
الصفحة 336 - To ensure the provision of necessary medical assistance and health care to all children with emphasis on the development of primary health care...
الصفحة 339 - Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take, individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed: (a) To improve methods of production, conservation and distribution of food by making full use of technical and scientific knowledge...
الصفحة 334 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
الصفحة 332 - We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. "Necessitous men are not free men.
الصفحة 333 - Parties recognize the right of every child to a standard of living adequate for the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral and social development.
الصفحة 334 - The States Parties to the present Covenant, recognizing the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger, shall take individually and through international co-operation, the measures, including specific programmes, which are needed: a.