Seasons of Hunger ─ Fighting Cycles of Quiet Starvation Among the World's Rural Poor
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Every year, millions of the rural poor suffer from predictable and preventable seasonal hunger. This hunger is less dramatic but no less damaging than the starvation associated with famines, wars and natural disasters. Seasons of Hunger explores why the world does not react to a crisis that we know will continue year after year.
Seasonal hunger is caused by annual cycles of shrinking food stocks, rising prices, and lack of income. This hidden hunger pushes millions of children to the brink of starvation every year, permanently stunting their physical and cognitive development, weakening their immune systems, and opening the door for killer diseases. Action Against Hunger argues that ending seasonal hunger could save millions of young lives and is key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. This book documents seasonal hunger in four countries---India, Malawi, Mali, and Myanmar--- including personal stories and country-wide data which shows the magnitude of the problem.
The authors also find encouraging examples of interventions designed to address seasonality---initiatives led by governments, donors and NGOs, and poor people themselves---and propose a package of advocacy messages that could contribute to the global eradication of seasonal hunger. This book will be a valuable resource for journalists, policymakers, NGO members, and students of development studies.
Stephen Devereux is a Research Fellow and a Director of the Centre for Social Protection at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Bapu Vaitla is an advocacy and research officer for Action Against Hunger. Samuel Hauenstein Swan heads Hunger Watch, Action Against Hunger's research and advocacy department.
Action Against Hunger (ACF) is an international humanitarian organization committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and working with vulnerable populations in over 40 countries worldwide to preserve and restore their livelihoods with dignity. It has headquarters in Montreal, Paris, Madrid, London, and New York.
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