The unfinished agenda : perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation /
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per
The unfinished agenda : perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation / edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Rajul Pandya-Lorch. - Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research Institute, c2001. - x, 301 páginas : Black and white illustrations and graphics, 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.
The Unfinished Agenda and Prospects for the Future. -- Nutrition and Health: The Ultimate Goals. -- Demographic Issues: Population Growth and Urbanization. -- Diet Trends: Increasing Demand for Livestock and Fish. -- Food Production and the Environment. -- The Hot Spots: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. -- Microcredit for the Rural Poor. -- Gender and Education Issues: Women and Food Security. -- What Will Globalization Bring?. -- Biotechnology and Information Technology: How Can the Poor Benefit?.
In recent decades the world has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of life for millions of people, but the job of assuring sustainable food security for the world's poorest people remains unfinished. Booming populations, rapid urbanization, persistent mal nutrition and poor health, degraded croplands and scarce water, disenfranchisement of women, accelerating globalization, and rapid emergence of new technolo gies-all these and many other issues are influencing this ongoing effort.
0896297063
Food supply--Developing countries.
Sustainable agriculture--Developing countries.
Environmental protection--Developing countries.
363.8091724 / / P658u
The unfinished agenda : perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation / edited by Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Rajul Pandya-Lorch. - Washington, D.C. : International Food Policy Research Institute, c2001. - x, 301 páginas : Black and white illustrations and graphics, 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-282) and index.
The Unfinished Agenda and Prospects for the Future. -- Nutrition and Health: The Ultimate Goals. -- Demographic Issues: Population Growth and Urbanization. -- Diet Trends: Increasing Demand for Livestock and Fish. -- Food Production and the Environment. -- The Hot Spots: Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. -- Microcredit for the Rural Poor. -- Gender and Education Issues: Women and Food Security. -- What Will Globalization Bring?. -- Biotechnology and Information Technology: How Can the Poor Benefit?.
In recent decades the world has made remarkable progress in improving the quality of life for millions of people, but the job of assuring sustainable food security for the world's poorest people remains unfinished. Booming populations, rapid urbanization, persistent mal nutrition and poor health, degraded croplands and scarce water, disenfranchisement of women, accelerating globalization, and rapid emergence of new technolo gies-all these and many other issues are influencing this ongoing effort.
0896297063
Food supply--Developing countries.
Sustainable agriculture--Developing countries.
Environmental protection--Developing countries.
363.8091724 / / P658u