Hidden Hunger

• Main Author: Biesalski, Hans Konrad. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Food science.; Public health.; Agriculture.; Science (General).; Development Economics.; Food Science.; Public Health.; Popular Science, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33950-9

Hidden Hunger is an increasing problem even in developed countries, whose potential negative consequences on long-term health are often overlooked and underestimated. Chronic malnutrition is at the core of the global hunger challenge facing science, politics, and economics. In plain language and wit...

Table of Contents:

• Hunger - a baseline study of the current situation
• Hidden hunger
• Causes of hidden hunger
• Trapped on the hunger carousel - generation after generation
• Quality comes with a price tag - the deadly triangle of economics, hunger and child development
• Ways out of the hunger crisis - making food security secure
• Strategies to combat hidden hunger.