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World Disasters Report 2011: Focus on hunger and malnutrition Kindle Edition

by Lindsay Knight (Editor), Bekele Geleta (Foreword) Format: Kindle Edition

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This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on the growing crisis of hunger and malnutrition. Smallholder farmers who produce half the world’s food are among the almost 1 billion people who go to bed hungry every night. Millions of children suffer the irreversible effects of undernutrition. Increasing food insecurity weakens people’s resilience to disasters and disease, and people everywhere are experiencing the increasing volatility of food prices.

This report analyses the causes and impacts of such vulnerability at community, national and international levels – during and after emergencies, and from a longer-term perspective. It examines the challenges of the globalized nature of food-related vulnerabilities, and the need for a cross-disciplinary approach. The report acknowledges the complexities involved, that the issues of global food security, hunger and malnutrition go to the core of virtually all the major components of the functioning of the international system, from international trade to climate change, from water scarcity to scientific innovation. What political action is needed to reform a failing global food system unlikely to provide sufficient food for a population projected to rise to 9 billion by 2050?

The World Disasters Report 2011 features:

* Reworking the global food system

* Stunted lives: the disaster of undernutrition

* Continued price instability questions reliance on global food markets

* Achieving livelihood stability through agriculture and social protection

* Responding to food insecurity and malnutrition in crises

* Getting it right – united against hunger: a manifesto for change

Plus a section on reforms needed in the humanitarian sector to prepare for more mega-disasters such as those experienced in 2010–2011 and for the range of complex disasters likely to occur in the future.

Plus photos, tables, graphics and index.

Published annually since 1993, the World Disasters Report brings together the latest trends, facts and analysis of contemporary crises – whether ‘natural’ or man-made, quick onset or chronic.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005OS57BK
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Red Cross Red Crescent Press (September 21, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 21, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 9797 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages

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