Seasons of Hunger: Fighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World's RuEvery year, millions of the rural poor suffer from predictable and preventable seasonal hunger. This hunger is less dramatic but no less damaging than the starvation associated with famines, wars and natural disasters. Seasons of Hunger explores why the world does not react to a crisis that we know will continue year after year. Seasonal hunger is caused by annual cycles of shrinking food stocks, rising prices, and lack of income. This hidden hunger pushes millions of children to the brink of starvation every year, permanently stunting their physical and cognitive development, weakening their immune systems and opening the door for killer diseases. Action Against Hunger argue that ending seasonal hunger could save millions of young lives and is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This book documents seasonal hunger in four countries - India, Malawi, Mali and Myanmar - including personal stories and country-wide data which shows the magnitude of the problem. The authors also find encouraging examples of interventions designed to address seasonality - initiatives led by governments, donors and NGOs, and poor people themselves - and propose a package of advocacy messages that could contribute to the global eradication of seasonal hunger. This book will be a valuable resource for journalists, policy makers, NGO members and students of development studies. |
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... underweight only ; and the bottom line is the percentage of severely underweight only . The patterns for all three are strikingly flat - they are non - seasonal . Yet the overall percentages for each remain alarmingly high . 100 % 90 ...
... underweight only ; and the bottom line is the percentage of severely underweight only . The patterns for all three are strikingly flat - they are non - seasonal . Yet the overall percentages for each remain alarmingly high . 100 % 90 ...
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... underweight rates stable throughout the year . But in our conversations , compliments for the PDS were more often than not followed in the next breath by justified complaints about poor targeting , leakage , and other problems for which ...
... underweight rates stable throughout the year . But in our conversations , compliments for the PDS were more often than not followed in the next breath by justified complaints about poor targeting , leakage , and other problems for which ...
Page 92
... underweight percentage does in fact decline considerably between the ages of one and five , indicating that the ICDS services to preschool children are having an impact ( although worryingly high underweight rates remain among all ...
... underweight percentage does in fact decline considerably between the ages of one and five , indicating that the ICDS services to preschool children are having an impact ( although worryingly high underweight rates remain among all ...
Contents
Those with Cold Hands | 1 |
A World Full of Good Ideas | 37 |
From Policy to Rights | 77 |
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