Beginning to End Hunger (eBook)

Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond

M. Jahi Chappell (Autor)

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2018
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96633-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world's most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil's renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat's work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds. Learn more about Jahi and his work on his personal website.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Frances Moore Lappé
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Food and Famine Futures, Past and Present
2. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Beginning to End Hunger
3. Belo Horizonte: All Five A’s on the Horizon
4. Multiple Streams and the Evolution of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security
5. Farm, Farmer, and Forest: SMASAN and the Environment
6. Conclusions: Belo Horizonte and Beyond

Abbreviations
Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.1.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
• Schlagworte: 1990s • activism • Activist • Belo Horizonte • Brazil • developed world • developing world • Economic Policy • ecosystem • End hunger • food production • food scarcity • food security • health and wellness • Local farmers • Malnutrition • national security • Nutrition • policy change • Public Health • Rural • small farm • Social Policy • Social Welfare • Starvation • welfare • world hunger • Zero hunger
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96633-3 / 0520966333
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96633-8 / 9780520966338