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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (2) Autor Cohen, Marc J. (1) Messer, Ellen (1) Wiesmann, Doris M. (1) Palavra-chave Conflict (2) Food Security and Poverty (2) Hunger (2) War (2) Child malnutrition (1) Child mortality (1) Coffee (1) Cotton (1) Countries in transition (1) Developing countries (1) Export cropping (1) Fair trade (1) Food availability (1) Globalization (1) HIV/AIDS (1) Human-rights (1) Indicators (1) Right-to-food (1) Sugar (1) Undernutrition (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Report (2) Ano 2006 (2) País United States (2) Idioma Inglês (2)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última A Global Hunger Index: Measurement Concept, Ranking of Countries, and Trends AgEcon Wiesmann, Doris M.. Progress in combating hunger and undernutrition has been lagging for decades. Best practices to fight hunger and undernutrition have been available for a long while, but lack of political will among leaders and a lack of political power among the poor have hampered their implementation. Since indices have proven to be powerful tools for advocacy and are able to capture multifaceted phenomena, the Global Hunger Index (GHI) was developed to increase attention to the hunger problem and mobilize the political will to speed up urgently needed progress in the fight against hunger. The GHI captures three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child mortality, which is to a large extent... Tipo: Report Palavras-chave: Hunger; Undernutrition; Child malnutrition; Child mortality; Food availability; Indicators; HIV/AIDS; Conflict; War; Developing countries; Countries in transition; Food Security and Poverty. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55891 Conflict, Food Insecurity, and Globalization AgEcon Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J.. We explore how globalization, broadly conceived to include international human-rights norms, humanitarianism, and alternative trade, might influence peaceful and food-secure outlooks and outcomes. The paper draws on our previous work on conflict as a cause and effect of hunger and also looks at agricultural exports as war commodities. We review studies on the relationships between (1) conflict and food insecurity, (2) conflict and globalization, and (3) globalization and food insecurity. Next, we analyze country-level, historical contexts where export crops, such as coffee and cotton, have been implicated in triggering and perpetuating conflict. These cases suggest that it is not export cropping per se, but production and trade structures and food and... Tipo: Report Palavras-chave: Hunger; Conflict; War; Globalization; Export cropping; Coffee; Cotton; Sugar; Human-rights; Right-to-food; Fair trade; Food Security and Poverty. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55898 Registros recuperados: 2 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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