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Feed the future : the United States global food security and sustainable agriculture initiative / Chas Slater and Ezekiel L. Castaneda, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Agriculture issues and policies.
- Agriculture Issues and Policies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feed the Future Initiative (U.S.).
- Food security.
- Food supply--Government policy--United States.
- Food supply.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, tables.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [New York] : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2012.
- Summary:
- At the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy in 2009, global leaders committed to "act with the scale and urgency needed to achieve sustainable global food security." They recognized that the combined effect of longstanding under-investment in agriculture and food security, historically high and volatile food prices, and the economic and financial crisis was increasing dramatically the number of poor and hungry and jeopardizing global progress toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals. By robbing people of a healthy and productive life and stunting the development of the next generation, hunger leads to devastating consequences for individuals, families, communities, and nations. This book examines the state of food insecurity in the world and provides an overview of the Obama Administration's global hunger and food security initiative, called "Feed the Future".
- Contents:
- The Obama administration's feed the future initiative
- Feed the future guide
- Feed the future : Global food security research strategy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61122-708-9
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