Hunger: Theory, Perspectives and Reality : Assessment Through Participatory Methods (Paperback)

Contents: Introduction; Institutional sanctions, choice and secondary food system as elements in the explanation of hunger; The theory of hunger: the economists' perspectives; The theory of hunger: the social and political perspectives; Community perspective on hunger from a backward state, village Chandpur, Varanasi; A second perspective on hunger in a backward state, from villagers of Tikri, Varanasi; Community perspective on hunger from vegetable producing farmers: village Uncha Gaon, Faridabad; Perspectives of rural women on food security from a tribal village (in West Bengal) - 1993 to 1998; A note on force field analysis of hunger in the four villages of Varanasi and Faridabad; A note on food security in villages of a perpetually hunger stricken district, Bolangir; Summary and conclusions: the reality check; References and select bibliography.