Title:	Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Authors:	Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis Shabd S. Acharya and Benjamin Davis
Keywords:	Food Security
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Palgrave, Macmillan
Description:	Despite the scale of human suffering brought about by malnutrition, the fight against world hunger receives far less attention than the fight against poverty, especially from bilateral and multilateral donors and lending agen- cies. The UN Millennium Declaration in 2000 set the Millennium Devel- opment Goals (MDGs), the first of which is to halve poverty and hunger by 2015. According to FAO, if each of the developing regions continues to reduce hunger at the current pace, only South America and the Caribbean will reach the MDG target of cutting the proportion of hungry people by half. None will reach the more ambitious World Food Summit goal of halv- ing the number of hungry people. Hunger and malnutrition are major causes of the deprivation and suffering targeted by all of the other MDGs. Without rapid progress in reducing hunger, achieving other MDGs related to poverty reduction, education, child mortality, maternal health and disease will be difficult, if not impossible. One important by-product of the lack of attention to food insecurity is that the issue is relatively understudied in the development literature, compared with poverty. This book tries to fill that gap. It is a product of a two-year joint project by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/26389
ISBN:	978 0 230 55357 6
Appears in Collections:	Food Security Studies

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