Food security and the crisis of the new millennium

Empowering women as a tool to achieve food security

Term Paper , 2014 , 30 Pages

Politics - Topic: Development Politics

The paper analyses the global challenges of the new millennium: The food price crisis, the financial and economic crisis as well as the ecological crisis. The crisis affect the world´s population, but in some regions such as South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa, the impacts are disastrous. Food security is threatened and poverty and inequality increase. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which among other things tend to halve between 1990 and 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition, is moving further away. These developments and current challenges are of serious concern and an opportunity for change.

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1. Introduction

2. The crisis of the new millennium
2.1 Food Price Crisis
2.2 Financial and economic crisis
2.3 Ecological Crisis

3. Global Hunger Index

4. The impact on human development
4.1 Gendered-specific implications of the crisis

5. Gender and Development
5.1 Gender and food security
5.2 Closing the gender gap

6. Innovative approaches to achieve food security and gender equality in South Asia

7. Conclusion

8. Bibliography

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• Author: Lisa Schmidt (Author)
• Publication Year: 2014
• Pages: 30
• Catalog Number: V274905
• ISBN (eBook): 9783668659629
• ISBN (Book): 9783668659636
• Language: English
• Tags: food, empowering