| Description |
1 online resource (188 pages) : color illustrations, maps |
| Series |
World hunger series ; 2009 |
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World hunger series ; 2009.
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| Contents |
Hunger -- Markets -- High food prices : trends, causes, and impacts -- Households, hunger, and markets -- Access to markets -- Availability of and access to nutritious food -- Vulnerability, risk, and markets -- Markets in emergencies -- Making markets work for the hungry poor and supplementing them where necessary -- The way forward : ten priority actions to help markets break the hunger-poverty trap |
| Summary |
Hunger and Markets explores the complex and multifaceted interactions between the availability of and access to food and the operation of markets. The structure and dynamics of food markets and the threats and opportunities they generate are crucial for the access to food for billions of people. Markets are critical in averting or mitigating food shortages and hunger by adjusting to shocks, reducing vulnerability and coping with crises. Whether markets help or harm the hungry poor is a function of market institutions, infrastructure and policies. This volume analyses the workings of markets in order to identify the sources of market failures in addressing hunger and malnutrition, and to highlight the ways in which they can be improved. The report sets out the ways in which policy formulation and programme design can build on the strengths of markets to prevent possible negative effects, important reading for all those involved in the fight against world hunger |
| Analysis |
Food security -- Developing countries |
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Produce markets -- Developing countries |
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Hunger -- Statistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hunger.
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Food supply
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Commerce.
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Poverty.
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Food Supply -- economics
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Hunger
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Commerce
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Internationality
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Malnutrition -- economics
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Malnutrition -- prevention & control
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Poverty
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Food Supply
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poverty.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
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Commerce
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Food supply
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Hunger
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Alimentation -- Aspect économique -- 21e siècle.
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Politique alimentaire -- 21e siècle.
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Malnutrition -- 21e siècle.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
World Food Programme
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| LC no. |
2009006513 |
| ISBN |
9781849771658 |
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1849771650 |
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9781844078370 |
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184407837X |
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9781844078387 |
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1844078388 |
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9781136563515 |
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1136563512 |
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