PopEnvironment Linkages  Overview Air and Climate Biodiversity Coasts and Oceans Conflict and Security Crosscutting Issues Demographics Development and Economics Food and Agriculture Freshwater Health Land Use PopEnvironment Home PopPlanet Home		Food and Agriculture > Agricultural and Food Practices > Food Distribution [8] 1 Title Comprehensive Projections Model Predicts Future Hunger Hot Spots: Shows Pantry Bare in Large Pockets of the World in 2020 Author Barbara Rose Abstract Poor countries that now suffer widespread malnutrition and a general lack of food security can look forward to little improvement in the foreseeable future, states a new study released today by a leading international agricultural research group, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). The study predicts that if further declines in support of agricultural research and development continue over the next quarter century, people in these countries will face even more serious privation." Type Newstory Affiliation International Food Policy Research Institute URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/pressrel/061595c.htm Peer Review Unknown Review Process 2 Title Food Insecurity Lies at the Root of Violent Conflict Author 2020 VISION News & Views, July 1996 Abstract Most media coverage of the growing instability in Burundi, as with the deadly conflict in neighboring Rwanda that preceded it, has looked for causes in the ethnic strife between Hutus and Tutsis. But research and expert opinion indicate that poverty, food insecurity, and environmental degradation lie at the root of conflict in the poorest developing countries. Researchers and policymakers fear that cutbacks in international assistance aimed at these fundamental issues could hurt donor countries as well as developing nations as further instability leads to refugee crises, military interventions, and the need for expensive emergency aid." Type Article Affiliation International Food Policy Research Institute URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/2020/newslet/nv_0796/nv_0796a.htm Peer Review Unknown Review Process 3 Title Food security within environmental limits Author Environment and Natural Resources Service Abstract The environmental price of food production is the loss of natural vegetation and biological diversity, soil erosion, and surface and groundwater depletion. Inevitably, there are divergent views about how land should be used - whether for industrial crops, food, nature conservation or industry. These conflicts exist for coastal and inland areas and common property resources such as forests, grazing lands and even oceans." Type Article Affiliation Food and Agriculture Organization URL: http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/SUSTDEV/FSdirect/FBdirect/FSE001.htm Peer Review Unknown Peer Review Process 4 Title Researchers Project 2020 Food Scenario, Prospects for Technology Author 2020 VISION News & Views, July 1995 Abstract "Preparations for the 2020 Vision conference included research designed to provide the best estimates of food supply and demand in the next quarter century, with biotechnology and integrated pest management (IPM) cited as particularly promising examples of new technology that can lead to increases in food production." Type Article Affiliation International Food Policy Research Institute URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/2020/newslet/nv_0795/nv_0795c.htm Peer Review Unknown Peer Review Process 5 Title Revolutionary Method Using Genetic "Maps and Markers" Promises to Increase Rice Yields by 15-20 Percent in Hungry South Asia -- June 15, 1995 Author Barbara Rose Abstract "A team of scientists with Cornell University and China's Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center are systematically harvesting high-yielding plant genes using molecular maps and markers to boost the yields of the world's most important food crop. The method promises to increase rice yields by 15-20 percent over a four- to five-year period, announced the scientists today at an international conference on agriculture and the environment. The method could sustain incremental yield increases in rice of 3-5 percent per year over the next 15-25 years, the scientists said. The scientists also hope to apply the same method to other major food staples, including wheat, maize, and beans." Type Article Affiliation International Food Research Policy Institute URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/pressrel/061595d.htm Peer Review Unknown Peer Review Process 6 Title The Geography of Hunger Author 2020 VISION News & Views, October 1995 Abstract Short article from magazine 20/20 Vision" about the causes of hunger and their implications The following is the author's abstract: "The persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is the most profound moral contradiction of our age. Twenty percent of the total population in the developing world is chronically undernourished. At least 2 billion suffer from vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Yet since the mid-1970s the world has produced enough food to provide everyone with a minimally adequate diet. " Type Graph Affiliation International Food Policy Research Institute URL: http://www.cgiar.org/ifpri/2020/newslet/nv_1095/nv_1095c.htm Peer Review Unknown Review Process 7 Title The Sixth World Food Survey Author Food and Agricultural Organization Abstract "The main conclusion of the survey is that per capita dietary energy supplies have continued to increase in the developing countries as a whole, with the result that, during the two decades from 1969-71, the prevalence of food inadequacy declined: 20 percent of the total population had inadequate access to food in 1990-92 compared with 35 percent two decades ago." Type Other Affiliation United Nations URL: http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/ESS/for-e.htm Peer Review Unknown Peer Review Process 8 Title The Sixth World Food Survey Author Food and Agricultural Organization Abstract The main conclusion of the survey is that per capita dietary energy supplies have continued to increase in the developing countries as a whole, with the result that, during the two decades from 1969-71, the prevalence of food inadequacy declined: 20 percent of the total population had inadequate access to food in 1990-92 compared with 35 percent two decades ago." Type Report Summary Affiliation United Nations URL: http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/ESS/for-e.htm Peer Review Unknown Review Process