Poverty, Hunger, Education, and Residential Status Impact Survival in HIV

Children, Hunger, and Poverty.

This column started out to highlight hunger in American children. But one quickly finds that you cannot discuss hunger without its partner, poverty, since hunger is principally caused by poverty. We also discovered in 2006 the twenty-first century lexicon term of food insecurity. While hunger in the sense of “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food”(Oxford English Dictionary 1971...

Hunger and poverty: the role of biodiversity

One third of Sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) population is malnourished and the ratio continues to increase. At 46%, the proportion of the poor (meaning those living on less than a dollar a day) in this region is the highest in the world. Food production and vegetable and fruit consumption per capita in SSA has been declining in recent decades. This translates into a low consumption of essential mic...

Ultra poverty and Hunger : Theory and Measurement

This first collection of chapters considers the measurement and understanding of poverty and hunger. Although there is broad agreement within the development community that, as Sen (1999) puts it, “Poverty must be seen as the deprivation of basic capabilities” (87),1 there is less agreement about how to identify the world’s poorest and determine where they live. As Deaton (2006) notes, it is of...

Eliminating Hunger and Reducing Poverty: Three Perspectives

AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: An Overview

T he AIDS epidemic is a global crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. More than 28 million people have died since the first case was reported in 1981. In 2005, AIDS killed 2.8 million people, and an estimated 4.1 million became infected, bringing to 38.6 million the number of people living with the virus around the world; 24.5 million of these people live in Sub-Saharan Afri...