Resources Tagged: Food Supply
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Key Resource 2012-01-01 2 Copies At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western...
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In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the...
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Food aid has been and continues to be an important tool for the international community to fight hunger in low-income countries, and the US is the dominant food-donor country. However, the effectiveness of food aid could be improved by increased coordination between donor groups, more transparent...
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This publication reports on the National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan that was developed in Tanzania to combat malnutrition.
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1998-01-19 The goals of the symposium are to share case studies and insights related to human nutrition and livestock, to strengthen the links between livestock programs and human nutrition, to examine protocols to document nutritional impact in the field, and to strengthen collaboration between scientists,...
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By now it is clear that the techniques of the first "Green Revolution" that averted mass starvation a generation ago --pesticides, chemical fertilizers, focusing on a few key crops--are threatening the food supply for future generations. Interestingly, the solution to this dilemma seems most...
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1966-01-01 This book introduces an evaluation of protein resources and requirements on a world basis. It attempts first to summarize available date on the supply of food protein, then appraise these supplies in terms of the quantities and per capita distribution necessary for adequate nutrition. Then the...
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Feast or Famine explores virtually every aspect of food production from the farm to the table, and untangles the rhetoric that surrounds agricultural ecology, agribusiness, and the hob-goblin of tax-supported subsidies.
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This manual is an effort to show that individual city residents can produce more food for their personal consumption and to earn income, and that significant quanitites of food can be grown in urban centers by applying thoughtful, knowledgeable food-production strategies. Careful selection of...
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1978-01-01 Useful food loss estimates are possible, however, as is improvement in food conservation. This study is devoted to assessing both the potential of food loss reduction efforts and their limiations. Itsummarizes existing work and information about losses of the major food crops and fish; discusses...