6 articles found for keyword search: hunger
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The SWS Surveys of Philippine Hunger, 1998–2024
In September 2024, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) reported that 22.9 percent of Filipino households experienced involuntary hunger—being hungry and not having anything to eat—at least once in the past three months. This paper focuses on the surveys of Philippine hunger conducted by...Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024) -
Book Review | Food Security and Food Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard by Charles P. Timmer
Timmer provides an excellent review and synthesis of the challenges and solutions to reducing hunger and improving food security, importantly emphasizing the need to rely on markets together with government provision of public goods such as agricultural research and development (R&D) and rural...Volume 12 Issue No. 2 (December 2015) -
Averting Hunger and Food Insecurity in Asia
The recent years have seen a resurgence of economic growth in Asia. The region's growth of roughly 5% achieved in 2003 came close to the level achieved prior to the East Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s. Remarkably, too, despite this crisis that led most countries in East Asia to either...Volume 1 Issue No. 1 (June 2004) -
Back in the Soup: Now What?
This article for AJAD presents the outlook for the world rice market as of early September 2023. It builds on the author's AJAD article from a year ago (https://doi.org/10.37801/ajad2022.19.2.p1) and on multiple articles in the East Asia Forum (https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2023/). A year ago...Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023) -
Indian Agriculture and Food Security: Current Concerns and Lessons
Since its independence in 1947, India has aimed its agricultural development policies at reducing hunger, food insecurity, and poverty. The new strategy of agricultural development launched in the mid-1960s was successful in improving macro (national) food security in a reasonably short period of...Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010) -
Book Review | The African Food Crisis: Lessons from the Asian Green Revolution edited by D. Djurfeldt, H. Holmen, M. Jirstrom, and R. Larsson
This book is a very topical contribution, coming at a time when the world community is increasingly shifting its attention from the agricultural development of Asia to that of Africa. A rapid growth in food production in Asia, in the wake of the Green Revolution, has increased the overall food...Volume 2 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2005)