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... represent a global commitment to poverty and hunger eradication.1 The recent abrupt increase in food prices, in tandem with the current global economic crisis, threat ens progress made in these areas and could prove a serious barrier to achieving the MDGs. 1 TheMDGs were adopted in 2000 by the member nations of the United Nations and the world's major development institutions.
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... Presenters were chosen by a planning committee to describe the dynamic technological, agricultural, and economic issues contributing to the food price increases of 2007 and 2008 and their impacts on health and nutrition in resourcepoor regions. The planning committee quickly realized that it was impossible to ignore the compounding effects of the current global economic downturn on nutrition.
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... In evaluating how the food crisis affected food security and nutrition to varying degrees in different countries and regions, Hafez Ghanem of the Food and Agriculture Organization argued that the term crisis is a misnomer. The billion hungry people in the world signify a chronic, structural problem in the global food and agriculture system.
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... Nutrition surveillance mechanisms can play a role in predicting and preventing future crises, as well as documenting the impacts of crises to inform programs and policies that work to ameliorate the negative nutritional impacts of food crises. The effects of undernutrition are known, and the 2008 Lancet series describes effective strategies for mitigation (Bhutta et al., 2008)
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... Department of Agriculture is expanding its resources in technology development in promising areas like food biofortification, pest and disease resis tant vegetable breeding, and livestock improvement, with hopes of extending these technologies to smallholder farmers in developing countries. Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman presented the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' report, Renewing American Leadership in the Fight Against Global Hunger and Poerty, which aims to put agricultural development back at the center of U.S.
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... Washing ton, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. von Braun, J., A
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