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1 online resource (445 pages) |
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Intro -- Title page -- copyright page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Ch1- Introduction -- What Is Hunger? -- This Book -- PART 1-The Facts About Hunger -- Ch2- The Historical Context -- The Irish Potato Famine -- Box 2.1 The Importance of Potatoes in European Development -- Famines Created by Government Policies -- Box 2.2 Global Climate Change and Famine in the 1600s -- Box 2.3 Incentives in Chinese Agricultural Communes -- Recent Famines -- Famine and Disaster Relief -- Box 2.4 When Food Aid Is Not Needed -- Food Aid from Rich Countries to Poor Countries |
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Table 2.1 Quantity of Food Aid from All Donors, 1990-2015 (tonnes) -- General Studies of Famine -- Table 2.2 Leading Recipients of Food Aid, 2015 (tonnes) -- Are Famines a Thing of the Past? -- Table 2.3 Deaths from Famine Worldwide, by Decade, 1900-2010 -- Ch3- Defining Malnutrition -- Four Types of Malnutrition -- Calories and Protein -- Box 3.1 Calories and Kilocalories -- How Much of a Nutrient Is Enough? -- Table 3.1 Dietary Reference Intakes for Calories and Protein -- Box 3.2 The Great Protein Controversy -- Box 3.3 How Many Calories Do I Need Each Day? |
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Figure 3.1 Distribution of Nutrient Requirements in a Typical Population of Healthy Individuals -- Ch4- Measuring Hunger -- Measuring the Nutritional Status of the Individual -- Box 4.1 Use of a Dietary-Recall Survey to Evaluate the Impact of a Financial Crisis on Nutrition in Indonesia -- Impact of Undernutrition on Physical Growth and Development -- Box 4.2 An Anthropometric Mystery -- Anthropometric Assessment of Nutritional Status -- Classification System for Identifying Undernutrition -- Figure 4.1 Height-for-Age and Weight-for-Age Percentiles for Girls Age 0-36 Months, United States, 2000 |
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Table 4.1 Anthropometric Classification Systems for Comparing Individuals to Reference Groups -- Measuring Nutritional Status of Large Groups -- Box 4.3 Using People's Food Choices to Make Inferences About Their Nutritional Status -- Ch5- The Impacts of Hunger -- Undernutrition and Mortality Risk Among Adults -- Box 5.1 BMI and Mortality -- Figure 5.1 Waaler Surface and Cross-Sections -- Undernutrition and Disease -- Box 5.2 Correlation Is Not Causation -- Box 5.3 The "Hunger Winter" -- Table 5.1 Complications and Deaths Among Adult Hospital Patients in Brazil -- Undernutrition and Child Health |
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Table 5.2 Disability-Adjusted Life Years Lost to Nutritional Deficiencies, 1990 and 2010 -- Box 5.4 An Econometric Analysis of the Relationship between Disease and Undernutrition in Children -- Table 5.3 Deaths Among Children Under Age Five Worldwide -- Table 5.4 Mortality Risk Among Undernourished Children Compared to Well-Nourished Children -- Table 5.5 Neonatal, Infant, and Child Mortality, Selected Countries, 2013 -- Impacts of Undernutrition on Intellectual Development and Educational Attainment -- Box 5.5 The Cebu Longitudinal Study -- Effects of Undernutrition on Labor Productivity |
| Summary |
Continuing in the tradition of its acclaimed predecessors, the sixth edition of The World Food Problem reflects ""a boldly multidisciplinary approach that captures all the complexity of the causes of, and solutions to, hunger ... in an engaging and often witty manner that is simple but never simplistic"" (Mark G. Cohen, Hunger Notes). Updated information and new case studies throughout this edition reflect the latest research, new policy directions, and the significant impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on agriculture, poverty, and hunger. There are also expanded discussions of developments in In |
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How Nutrition Shaped the History of Western Civilization |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Leonard, Kenneth L
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| ISBN |
9781955055734 |
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1955055734 |
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