This monograph fills an important gap by providing an overview on which nutrition interventions improve the nutrition status of women and children, with emphasis on the poor in developing countries. The purpose is to define a core menu of proven investment options supported by sound evidence of...
1987-01-01 This book describes the simplest, most effective ways to address hunger in your community, your counry and around the world. Proven, time-tested ideas - how to start a soup kitchen or night shelter, volunteer overseas, raise money, influence local, state and federal government policies and many...
Sage, who is nine, and her mother, Tracy, wrote this book to let you know about hunger and the hungry people in our world, and to let you know some things that you and your parents, or brothers and sisters, or cousins, or friends, or some of the kids and teachers in your school, or even you whole...
1998-12-01 This book provides advice to relief workers considering a distribution of seeds and tools to refugees or displaced people. It covers preliminary assessment, project design, and implementation, including the choice of seeds and tools to distribute, and methods of distribution. It emphasizes the...
In many countries, prolonged conflicts result in food emergencies that recur over years or even decades. Initial humanitarian relief efforts are rarely replaced by programs that offer a longer-term perspective on food security. This book provides examples of opportunities to bridge the gap...
Written with Howard W. Buffett, and with a foreword by Warren Buffett,40 Chancesis an "inspiring manifesto...both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes" (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger. If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in...
1975-01-01 Examines social, economic, and political aspects of international hunger and of its possible alleviation and explains how the ordinary person can help to shape public policy conducive to greater, more effective efforts toward alleviation.
Key Resource1985-01-01 Not too long ago, only poets and dreamers imagined a world without hunger and starvation. Today, the worlds expert community--scientists, agricultural specialists, development professionals, working with governments, the UN and private voluntary organizations--is united in its declaration that...