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PANUPS: Resource Pointer #343 (Food Security)

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Resource Pointer #343 (Food Security)

 

October 29, 2003

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate publishers

or organizations directly.

 

*Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization, 2003* C. Ford

Runger, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardley, and Mark W. Rosegrant. Identifies

potential causes of hunger and recounts recent and historical research on

fighting poverty. Predicts that the battle against hunger can be won through

sustainable environmental practices, thoughtful global investment, scientific

and technological innovations, and institutional commitment. 288 pages. US

$19.95. Contact The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2715 North Charles Street,

Baltimore, MD 21218; phone (410) 516-6900; fax (410) 516-6968; email

webmaster; Web site http://www.press.jhu.edu/.

 

*Food Security in South Asia: Enhancing Community Capacity to Generate Knowledge

and Influence Policy, 2002* A compilation of abstracts of grassroots research on

agricultural biodiversity intended to inform policy-makers concerned with food

security. Refutes assertions of traditional knowledge and agricultural practices

as being unscientific by presenting the procedural practices and experimental

development of traditional agriculture. 74 pages. Contact UBINIG, Policy

Research for Development Alternatives, 5/3 Barabo Mahanpur, Ring Road, Shaymoli,

Dhaka -- 1207, Bangladesh; phone (88 2) 811-1465; fax (88 2) 811-3065; email

ubinig; Web site http://membres.lycos.fr/ubinig/.

 

*Organic Agriculture and Food Security, 2002* Gunnar Rundgren, International

Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM). Identifies numerous causes

of failed food security and the current and potential role of organic

agriculture to increase food security. Case Studies from the Global South

demonstrate this link. 20 pages. Euro €9. Contact IFOAM c/o Ökozentrum Imsbach,

D-66636 Tholey-Theley, Germany; phone (49 6853) 919 890; fax (49 6853) 919 899;

email HeadOffice; Web site http://www.ifoam.org/.

 

*Sustainable Food Security for All by 2020: Proceedings of an International

Conference, September 4-6, 2001, 2002* International Food Policy Research

Institute (IFPRI). Identifies current factors inhibiting food security and

outlines a plan for its' achievement. Examines solutions that have failed in the

past and incorporates those lessons in policy suggestions. Discusses the role of

economics, governments, international organizations, trade, globalization, and

climate change in developing new approaches to overcome food insecurity. 296

pages. Available for free download at:

http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/books/2020conpro.htm or as free hardcopy. Contact

IFPRI, 2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006-1002; phone (202) 862-5600; fax

(202) 467-4439; email ifpri; Web site http://www.ifpri.org/.

 

*Food Sovereignty: On the Centenary of a Famine, 2001 and Food Sovereignty II:

27 Modest Proposals for the World Food Summit, 2002* ETC Group. The first

examines the history of declining food security and sovereignty prior to the

meeting of the World Food Summit in 1996, focusing on the period between 1896

and 1902, when international commodity trade spurred a decline in food security

and a famine in colonized nations. The second responds to the outcome of the

World Food Summit with a list of 27 steps to be implemented by governments and

international organizations to improve food security and sovereignty. 17 pages

total. Available for free download at:

http://www.etcgroup.org/search.asp?type=genotype. Contact ETC Group, 478 River

Avenue, Suite 200, Winnipeg, MB R3L 0C8, Canada; phone (204) 453-5259; fax (204)

284-7871; email etc; Web site http://www.etcgroup.org/.

 

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