Who's Hungry? And How Do We Know? Food Shortage, Poverty and Deprivation (UNU, 1998, 199 pages)

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Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

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Framework: Food shortage, food poverty, food deprivation

Links between levels of hunger

Why hunger matters

Organization of the volume

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2. Measuring hunger

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Input: Enough to eat?

Output: Nutritional outcomes

Relations among the hunger indicators

Notes

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3. Food shortage

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Is there a world food shortage?

Where are there regional food shortages?

How common are country-level food shortages?

Causes of shortage

The relationship between drought and famine

Ecological and political aspects of food shortage in the 1990s

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4. Food poverty

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Causes of food poverty

Kinds of data

Case study: The importance of non-market entitlements

Policy recommendations to reduce food poverty

Summary and conclusions

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5. Food deprivation

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Causes of deprivation

Measurement of food deprivation

Evidence

Conclusions

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6. Conflict as a cause of hunger

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Food shortage related to conflict

Food poverty related to conflict

Distribution of conflict-related food poverty

Food deprivation related to conflict

The hunger costs of sanctions

Underlying conditions

Humanitarian and political principles and institutions limiting conflict-related hunger

Measuring the ''hunger'' costs of conflict

Conclusions

Notes

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7. Conclusions

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Patterns of risk

Policy implications

Synthesis

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