A New Era of World Hunger?- The Global Food Crisis Analyzed

James A. Paul

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Abstract: This paper is an account of the main streams discussed in an international conference, held in New York in April 2008, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Global Policy Forum, which considered the right to food and the role of the United Nations in responding to the global food crisis. The paper argues for effective short-term aid and long-term transformation of the agricultural system to make it more justly distributive, resilient, and sustainable for the future. [FES briefing paper-7]

Keywords: food crisis; hunger; poverty; united nations; Brazil; population food and agricultural organization; UN; population pressure; consumption patterns; trade; food prices; biofules; climate change; soil depletion; water shortage; agro-companies; agro-industrial system; food aid; right to food; price fising; farmers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-09
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