Next New World

by Bill Pritchard

Food security is one of the twenty-first centurys key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the worlds under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic growth may not provide an assumed panacea to food security. This book takes on this challenge. It explains how Indias chronic food security problem is a function of a distinctive interaction of economic, political and environmental processes. It contends that under-nutrition and hunger are lagging components of human development in India precisely because the interfaces between these aspects of the food security problem have not been adequately understood in policy-making communities. Only through an integrative approach spanning the social and environmental sciences, are the fuller dimensions of this problem revealed. A well-rounded appreciation of the problem is required, informed by the FAOs conception of food security as encompassing availability (production), access (distribution) and utilisation (nutritional content), as well as byAmartya Sens notions of entitlements and capabilities.

Genres: Short Stories

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Leo W. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed Easy in the Islands and, so, when I encountered this collection in a used book store, I was delighted. Found it less than satisfying. One had the sense that the author was experimenting with both style and content, but with marked success in some stories and less so in others.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

for the most part i was wowed. very rarely was i underwhelmed. in fact, in only one place was the whelming inadequate. the rest of the short stories were hyper-whelming. it's a mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad, mad world. indeed.

[Bob · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are few writers who have produced sentences as sinuous and beautiful as Bob Shacochis. That said, this over 30 year old collection does not speak to that ability. A couple at the beginning are... ok? but the final half of the collection is clunker and clonker. Oh well. They can't all be winners.