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Last year, north-eastern Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen and South Sudan experienced the worst food crises, with over 30 million people requiring emergency aid. All of these countries are in the Middle East and Africa. Hunger versus hope These famines, particularly the one that has plagued the Horn...
In 2015, 193 countries gathered at the United Nations and pledged toend global hungerby 2030 as part of theAgenda for Sustainable Development. With less than a decade to go, prospects for achieving this goal appear bleak. Improving them will require governments and the private sector to address...
Ending Book Hunger: Access to Print Across Barriers of Class and CultureAccess to Print Across Barriers of Class and CultureWorldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. This book argues that this...
The Truman Show anticipated the audience’s hunger for the details of other people’s lives, propensity for voyeurism, and casual dismissal of the loss of privacy. Even people who are not in the cast of a reality show, critics say, can use social media to create a “Truman Show” of ...
Among...doi:10.1080/03066150.2016.1164518MurphySophiaJournal of Peasant StudiesTimmer, C. Peter. 2015. Food Security and Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Introduction For many, it is hard to imagine a life without access to reliable energy. One only needs to experience the habitual flicking of a light switch during a power outage to realize it is inseparably integrated into our daily existence. Many of us have had the experience of preparing...