One Billion Hungry People: Multiple Causes Of Food Insecurity Considered
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 11:28
in Mathematics & Economics
New articles document some of the multiple causes of food insecurity. Topics include desertification, flooding, adaptation of remote communities to modern technology, seasonality of food crops and the corresponding dearth between harvests, lack of iron in traditionally consumed food, resulting in anaemia, and taboos that inhibit people from supplementing their diets with nutritious wild fruits that are readily available.