Hunger and Markets: World Hunger Series

ISBN-13: 9781844078387 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str.

United Nations World Food Program

Opis

"Hunger and Markets" is the third volume of the UN World Food Programs World Hunger Series, created to help promote a better understanding of the choices confronting leaders as they work to fight hunger. It appears at a crucial time, with food prices at high levels, a severe global financial crisis and vulnerable households around the world endangering their future health, education and productivity by reducing both the quality and the quantity of their food intake.

O autorze

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was set up over 45 years ago to provide emergency food assistance, to stop hunger and thus help break the cycle of poverty. In 2008, WFP food assistance reached nearly 100 million people in about 80 countries.