Annotated Bibliography (Ending Hunger Now)
and poverty. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2005.
The following article uses the latest empirical findings in promoting aid and growth by revealing how good governance is achieved through radical restructuring of the international aid. The author shows that aid programs are aimed at eradicating poverty and play a forceful role in political and institutional reforms. In addition, the second chapter gives a discussion of the current growth literature in order to give a conclusion on how growth has been achieved using the international aids. Ashok analyzes the role of major international financial institutions and other donors in influencing the impact of aids on development. Moreover, the book gives valid reasons on how aids help in reducing poverty and at the same time helps in ending hunger among people. These discussions are of great relevance to the topic because they provide and insightful, informative, and perfect perspectives of the importance of foreign aids in ending hunger especially in developing countries. (152 words)
Benjamin, S. From income to urban contest in global settings: chronic poverty in Bangalore.
New Delhi, Chronic Poverty Research Centre and Indian Institute of Public Administration. 2004.
Benjamin discusses the complex household structures in terms of fluctuations experienced by people. In addition, the author speaks of how a newly built city opened up opportunities for growth and development whereby, people could earn a living and get money to feed their families. The article shows a clear distinction between poverty and chronic poverty situations that make people cry of hunger. In addition, the article gives claims of people who have prolonged long incomes, low food intake, and exposure to health risks. This article is of great relevance to the topic of discussion but does not give solutions to problem of hunger. Moreover, it gives a wide range of factors that contribute to poor health among people in Bangalore but does not give solutions that the local leaders are planning to end hunger in the region. (137 words)
Drewett, Robert. The Nutritional Psychology of Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2007. Print.
End Hunger in America. Learning How to End Hunger in Your Community. 2013. Retrieved
http://www.endhungerinamerica.org/
This article from an American organization has introduced new methods of ending poverty in their communities. The article starts by providing a statistics and background information about American poverty. These statistics are then used by the author in developing various ways and means of ending hunger in the region. According to Sheeran, only people living in the same community have the potential to end hunger. This article uses this message by developing a program that enables citizens donate some funds to charitable organization to enable end hunger in the community. The editor encourages people to explore the website and give their views on how they could help end poverty among individuals to ensure every person puts food on the table at every meal. The relevance of this article to the topic is that the editor has given some examples of how people can organize themselves into groups and look for funds to assists others who cannot afford food. (158 words)
Heifer International. Ten Things You Can do Today to End Hunger. N.d. retrieved from:
http://www.heifer.org/passon/10things.
Heifer International is an organization that provides support to the local communities in an effort to end hunger in the society and care for the poor families. The organization gives advices on various methods that people can use in order to end hunger. This source gives ten advices on how people can end poverty today. In summary, heifer international gives a list ten things that people can do to end hunger in the society. These ten advices focuses on various practices that people in the society should follow in order to help end poverty and in return reduce hunger. For example, the source encourages people to practice organic farming as a means of ending hunger. Organic forming provides many alternatives to crop production. This article is relevant to the topic because it puts more weight on Sheeran’s topic of ending hunger now. The ten advices given contribute very much in eliminating poverty in the society. (155 words)
Henry, Carla, et. al. Microfinance poverty assessment tool. Washington, D.C.: The World Bank.
2003, p. 206.
The following article provides data on poverty levels of MFI clients in relation to people living in the same community. The authors use a more standardized and globally applicable set of indicators than those used by other sources. The tool used in the article employ principal component analysis in developing a multidimensional poverty index that enables easier comparison of poverty within and across countries. The Micro-finance Poverty Assessment Tool used on this source acts a relevant tool in providing a detailed and statistically accurate data that enables one easily determine factors necessary to end hunger. In summary, the low cost methodology used on this source assists in saving the cost of doing research on ways of ending hunger and, gives an extensive time requirement in a detailed household expenditure survey. This is a great relevant aspect in determining how a country can help eliminate hunger among its citizens. (148 words)
Lappé, Anna. Diet for a hot planet: the climate crisis at the end of your fork and what you can do
about it. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2010. Print.
Anne Lappe is a highly respected author who has written several books on food systems and sustainable nutrition. In this book, Lappe focuses on how people think about hunger about the current environment and social impacts on food choices made. She has exposed some hidden costs in the normal food system. In relation to Josette Sheeran clip on “Ending Hunger Now”, this source focuses on how people should eliminate climate crisis because they contribute to lack of food in the society today. The author also focuses on how greenhouse gases affect food production giving an example of Korea where greenhouse –gas emission is dominant. In her thoughts, Lappe said, “If we are serious about the climate crisis, we have to talk about food”. This source is relevant to our topic because it exposes factors that contribute to lack of food in the society through the resistance of various companies that encourage greenhouse gas emission leading to climate changes. (158 words)
Sanchez, Pedro A., and M. S. Swaminathan. "Cutting World Hunger in Half." Sciencemag.org.
Science Magazine, 21 Jan. 2005. Retrieved from: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5708/357.full.
The following source is very objective because it interests anyone curious of knowing about hunger. It bases its argument on statistics of the Millennium Project conducted by the United Nations to help reduce the number of hungry people in the world. The article goes ahead and spots the hot spots of hunger in the world as Africa and India. In the article, three ways of reducing hunger are identified; global political action, national policy reforms, and community action in most prevalent regions. This article is relevant to the discussion topic because it shows how dependence on governments of the countries in Africa and India would help end hunger in these regions. In addition, the article touches on the issue of corruption and its contribution to high rates of poverty in developing countries. The information and suggestions provided in this article are very useful in discussing the topic of ending hunger. (150 words)
Runge, C F. Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization. Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2003. Print.
Runge Ford provides a clear explanation of the current agricultural problems causing hunger in the world. He stresses on putting these problems in a wider social context, relating other factors like women education, which has an effect on the household food security. In addition, the source eliminates some popular misconceptions that patterns of genes held by multinational companies affects farming in developing countries. Moreover, the source provides a wide range of ideas, arguments, and facts from the authors’ research on how technology helps eliminate poverty, which in return ends hunger in the society. On this article, Runge argues, “A very effective synthesis and exposition of the issues related to food security. I know of no other work that brings the various threads of the food security issues together under one coverI would guess that it might find substantial classroom use”. This source is very relevant because it provides the impact of the current technology on ending poverty. (157 words)
World Health Organization. Breastfeeding key to saving children’s lives. 2013. Retrieved from:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2010/breastfeeding_20100730/en/
World Health Organization has been campaigning for quality health to all individuals. The organization has written many books and article related to maintenance of quality health through offering various recommendations to breastfeeding mothers. This article focuses on how breastfeeding assists in saving children lives. Like the Heifer international, WHO has also described ten steps that breastfeeding mothers should adopt in order to ensure quality health for children. In addition, a well-organized procedure is provided on how mothers should schedule their operations. In summary, this source calls for health workers to assist mothers on how to breastfeed successfully and improve their babies’ health and survival chances. This source however does not give full details of how breastfeeding helps end hunger. However, it focuses on malnutrition and its affect to the world population. This source will assist in determining the main reasons why most mothers fail to breastfeed their children up to the recommended months and their relationship to hunger. (158 words)
