Resources Tagged: Poverty

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  1. Nutrition and Poverty: Papers From the ACC/SCN 24th Session Symposium, Kathmandu, March 1997.

    This report presents a collection of papers discussed at the 24th Session of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Nutrition, held in March 1997 Kathmandu. The Symposium presenters and discussants traced the origins of child malnutrition to low birth weight, maternal deprivation and discrimination...
    Nutrition Poor Social Aspects Malnutrition Poverty South Asia

  2. Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

    For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the “Green Revolution” succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year...
    Africa Preventing Poverty Starvation Poverty

  3. Walking with the Poor Principles and Practices of Transformational Development

    Key Resource 2011-12-01 In this revised and updated edition of a modern classic, Bryant Myers shows how Christian mission can contribute to dismantling poverty and social evil. Integrating the best principles and practice of the international development community, the thinking and experience of Christian...
    Poverty Agriculture Develo...

  4. Just One Planet Poverty, Justice and Climate Change

    2006-01-01 * A call to arms to take care of the earth―because we have “just one planet” * Climate change threatens the survival of cultures, species and whole ecosystems * Demonstrates that if we fail to take action on climate change, we run the risk of failing on poverty reduction, which means abandoning...
    Climate Change Global Temperature... Poverty Developing countries

  5. Action at the grassroots: fighting poverty and environmental decline

    The author looks at different areas around the world to review how action at the grassroots is developing.
    Environmental Prot... Poverty

  6. The global war against the poor

    This book is about world poverty, its causes and consequences.
    Poverty

  7. Poverty Cure

    2012-01-01 Poverty Cure Publisher: Acton Media, [2012] Media: DVD Summary:Poverty Cure is a six-episode DVD series on human flourishing. This high-energy, 152-minute documentary-style series challenges conventional thinking and reframes the poverty debate around the creative capacity of the human person,...
    Documentary Poverty DVD

  8. Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty

    Mexican case studies in the culture of poverty. For a considerable number of years, Oscar Lewis has been experiementing with, and perfecting, an important technique for ethnological reportage. This is the minute and as nearly as possible total observation of the daily life of single family...
    Rural Conditions Case Studies Poverty Preventing Poverty

  9. Hacia un Desarrollo Sin Pobreza en America Latina y el Caribe Towards Development without Poverty in La...

    1990-01-01 Este volumen hace parte de una serie de publicaciones que Proyecto Regional para la Supercion de la Pobreza, en su calidad de Secretartia Techica de la I y II conferencias regegionales de pobreza, ha venido preparando desde 1988. Sobre la II Conferencia, en particular, se han publicado can este...
    Spanish Language Preventing Poverty Poverty Caribbean Latin America Sustainable Develo...

  10. FM 1987 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 3 #1

    1987-05-19 Integrated nutrient supply Improved fallow Nitrogen transfer from legumes Cover crops on acid soils Sunnhemp Rock phosphate Micro-nutrient drain Soil conservation and shifting cultivators Cycles of poverty
    Nitrogen Soil Acidity Micronutrients Phosphorus Legumes Sunn Hemp Fallow Soil Conservation Poverty Cover Crops