Title:	World Food Security
Authors:	D. John Shaw
Keywords:	International cooperation
Issue Date:	2007
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	It is an appalling fact that in this globalizing world of increasing prosperity, in which the richest tenth own 85 per cent of the world’s assets, just under one billion people subsist on less than one dollar a day, 2.8 billion on less than two dollars a day, and 850 million suffer from undernourishment in dehumanizing, abject poverty. Almost 200 million children under five years of age are underweight due to lack of food and one child dies every 5 seconds from hunger and related causes. Hunger and malnutrition kill more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined, and more people die from hunger than in wars. At the centre of this human tragedy is food insecurity, inability to access the safe and nutritious food necessary for a healthy and active life. World leaders and international bodies have many times made a commitment, and have acknowledged that there are sufficient resources and know-how, to end hunger and poverty. This scourge is not only morally unacceptable but is a serious impediment to equitable and sustainable economic and social development, and to world peace. This history is about what attempts have been made over the past sixty years to address this problem in what I have come to call ‘the graveyard of aspirations’.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/44214
ISBN:	978-0-230-55355-2
Appears in Collections:	Food Security Studies

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