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The atlas of world hunger / Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson.

Title
The atlas of world hunger / Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson.
Author
Bassett, Thomas J.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

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Winter-Nelson, Alex E.
Description
201 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 29 cm
Summary
Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be a making sure that people are able to get enough to eat. The U.S. spends about five billion dollars on food aid & related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people are hungry.
Subject
  • Food supply > Maps
  • Atlases
  • Society
  • Disponibilités alimentaires
  • Sécurité alimentaire
  • Faim
  • Pauvreté
  • Changement climatique
  • Technologie alimentaire
  • Désastres naturels
  • Désastres d'origine humaine
  • Atlas
  • Food supply
  • Welternährung
  • Hunger
  • Armut
  • Entwicklungsländer
Genre/Form
Maps
Note
  • Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Locating hunger. Indicators of malnutrition ; Patterns of hunger within countries -- The sources of hunger. National resources ; Technology ; Poverty ; Exacerbating conditions and events.
ISBN
  • 9780226039077
  • 0226039072
LCCN
^^2009022152
OCLC
  • 1243027214
  • SCSB-10377195
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library