Who's hungry? And how do we know? Food
shortage, poverty, and deprivationThis is the old United Nations University website. Visit the new site at http://unu.edu
Who's hungry? And how do we know? Food
shortage, poverty, and deprivation
Laurie DeRose, Ellen Messer, and Sara Millman
United Nations University Press
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DeRose, Laurie Fields, 1968-
Who's hungry? And how do we know?: food shortage, poverty, and
deprivation/Laurie DeRose, Ellen Messer, and Sara Millman.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9280809857 (pbk.)
1. Poverty. 2. Hunger. 3.
Starvation. 4. Food supply.
5. Nutrition policy. 6. Famines. 7. War and society.
8. Economic sanctions. I. Messer, Ellen.
II. Millman, Sara. III. Title.
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Framework: Food shortage, food poverty, food deprivation
Links between levels of hunger
Why hunger matters
Organization of the volume
Works cited
Input: Enough to eat?
Output: Nutritional outcomes
Relations among the hunger indicators
Notes
Works cited
Is there a world food shortage?
Where are there regional food shortages?
How common are country-level food shortages?
Causes of shortage
The relationship between drought and famine
Ecological and political aspects of food shortage in the 1990s
Notes
Works cited
Causes of food poverty
Kinds of data
Case study: The importance of non-market entitlements
Policy recommendations to reduce food poverty
Summary and conclusions
Works cited
Causes of deprivation
Measurement of food deprivation
Evidence
Conclusions
Notes
Works cited
6. Conflict as a cause of hunger
Food shortage related to conflict
Food poverty related to conflict
Distribution of conflict-related food poverty
Food deprivation related to conflict
The hunger costs of sanctions
Underlying conditions
Humanitarian and political principles and institutions limiting conflict-related hunger
Measuring the "hunger" costs of conflict
Conclusions
Notes
Works cited