Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Nutritional Science, language: English, abstract: The extent of hunger and food insecurity in a country is an imperative welfare indicator (Anand and Harris 1990). The Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations estimates around 800 million people worldwide to be food insecure and they are not retained in the boundary of the developing world. Measuring food insecurity at the individual/household level rather than national level differs from the more traditional approach of identifying food insecurity as the inadequacy of aggregated...
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Nutritional Science, language: English, abstract: The extent of hunger and food insecurity in a countr...