The atlas of world hunger / Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson.

By: Bassett, Thomas JContributor(s): Winter-Nelson, Alex EMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010Description: 201 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226039077; 0226039072Subject(s): Food supply -- Maps | Atlases | Society | Disponibilités alimentaires | Sécurité alimentaire | Faim | Pauvreté | Changement climatique | Technologie alimentaire | Désastres naturels | Désastres d'origine humaine | Atlas | Atlases | Food supply | Welternährung | Hunger | Armut | EntwicklungsländerGenre/Form: Maps.DDC classification: 363.8/0223 LOC classification: G1046.E59 | B38 2010
Contents:
Locating hunger. Indicators of malnutrition ; Patterns of hunger within countries -- The sources of hunger. National resources ; Technology ; Poverty ; Exacerbating conditions and events.
Summary: Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be a making sure that people are able to get enough to eat. The U.S. spends about five billion dollars on food aid & related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry.
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Maps on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.

Locating hunger. Indicators of malnutrition ; Patterns of hunger within countries -- The sources of hunger. National resources ; Technology ; Poverty ; Exacerbating conditions and events.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be a making sure that people are able to get enough to eat. The U.S. spends about five billion dollars on food aid & related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry.

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