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Title: Seasons of Hunger : Fighting Cycles of Starvation Among the World's Rural Poor
Description: Every year, millions of the rural poor suffer from predictable and preventable seasonal hunger. This hunger is less dramatic but no less damaging than the starvation associated with famines, wars and natural disasters. Seasons of Hunger explores why the world does not react to a crisis that we know will continue year after year. Seasonal hunger is caused by annual cycles of shrinking food stocks, rising prices, and lack of income. This hidden hunger pushes millions of children to the brink of starvation every year, permanently stunting their physical and cognitive development, weakening their immune systems and opening the door for killer diseases. Action Against Hunger argue that ending seasonal hunger could save millions of young lives and is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This book documents seasonal hunger in four countries - India, Malawi, Mali and Myanmar - including personal stories and country-wide data which shows the magnitude of the problem. The authors also find encouraging examples of interventions designed to address seasonality - initiatives led by governments, donors and NGOs, and poor people themselves - and propose a package of advocacy messages that could contribute to the global eradication of seasonal hunger. This book will be a valuable resource for journalists, policy makers, NGO members and students of development studies.
Authors: Stephen Devereux, Bapu Vaitla, Samuel Hauenstein Swan
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Subjects: Food supply--Developing countries, Hunger--Developing countries, Rural poor--Developing countries, Famines--Developing countries
Categories: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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