Risorse Tagged: Hunger

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  1. Risk Aversion vs Hunger and Exhaustion

    20/10/2013 This article challenges the long-held assumption that smallholder farmers are risk averse and delay land preparation and planting until they are assured of adequate rainfall, and that they inefficiently used the natural resources available to them. The author proposes that farming operations are...
    Smallholder Farm Family Farm Rural Development Hunger Risk Aversion Risk Management Agricultural Devel... Economic Development

  2. Millions Fed Proven Successes in Agricultural Development

    20/01/2009 Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress in feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while the challenge of meeting future food needs remains enormous and is subject to new uncertainties in the global food and agricultural systems. In the late...
    Food Policy Hunger

  3. Roots of Hope: Miss-a-Meal Meditations

    01/01/1979 Roots of Hope, written by a wide variety of Southern Baptist pastors, leaders, academics and laypeople is designed to help Christians learn to listen to our hunger world.The book is intended to be used as the focus of a weekly miss-a-meal discipline in which time saved is used to pray and...
    Hunger Devotional Literature Staff Book World Hunger

  4. Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God's World

    Every fifteen minutes a jumbo jet filled with children crashes, leaving no survivors. The jet is actually hunger, but the haunting image is real--33,000 children dead each day. What is even more haunting is that the deaths are unnecessary because the world has long had the technology and...
    Agriculture and State Hunger