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Also see Towards
Hunger Free India - a consultation Enabling Development: Food Assistance in South Asia The book "Enabling Development:
Food Assistance in South Asia" was prepared by WFP and published by
Oxford University Press. The book is based on inputs from eminent authors
from all SAARC countries, since South Asia is home to more chronically food
insecure people than any other part of the world. This book is the first to
take stock of the current situation of hunger and malnutrition in the region
and examines ways of dealing with it. It offers both short and long-term
solutions to hunger through food assistance programmes based on successful
experiences within the region. The book contains a thorough analysis of the
question whether the SAARC countries would meet the commitment made by Heads
of State at the World Food Summit in 1996 of halving the number of
chronically undernourished by the year 2015. The book warns that if the
present trends were to continue, over 217 million people in Bangladesh,
Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka would still be hungry
in 2015. Price: Rs. 525/- 316 pages 215 x 140 mm ISBN: 019565746-2 |
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