Food Security and Nutrition

Beschreibung

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.

Contributors:
Cesar Deben Alfonso, Peter Ay, Friederike Bellin-Sesay,
Peter von Blankenburg, Joachim von Braun, John C. Caldwell,
William D. Clay, Mark Cohen, Bernd V. Dreesmann, Günter
Dresrüsse, Asbjorn Eide, Geog Elwert, Javier Ekboir,
Bernhard Glaeser, Albert Hoegner, M. Anwar Hussain, Noriko
Kashiwagi, Uwe Kracht, Klaus Lampe, Klaus M. Leisinger, Uma
Lele, Benjamin Ariel Marte, Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen,
Hans Pfeifer, Theo Rauch, George E. Rossmiller, Frances
Sandiford-Rossmiller, David E. Sahn, Lazare Séhouéto, Detlef
Schwefel, Hans Schoeneberger, Bernd Schubert, Manfred
Schulz, Ismail Serageldin, Manohar Sharma, D. John Shaw,
Gerd Spittler, Pieter van Steekelenburg, Friedhelm
Streiffeler, Parto Teherani-Krönner, Peter Uvin, Gerhard
Wenzel, Gabriele Zdunnek, Manfred Zeller.

Co-published with St. Martin’s Press, New York.

Uwe Kracht works for the World Alliance for Nutrition and
Human Rights / Rome.