Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 177 Among pastoralists, whether Somalis in Somaliland or Kalmyks in Russia, ...

178 Poverty and Hunger The wealthy can be generous and good, but often they are seen in a bad light. A 54-year-old man from Kok ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 179 Box 7.2 Expressions of ill-being The words and expressions used for the ...

180 Poverty and Hunger The multidimensionality of ill-being As with well-being, participants describe ill-being as multidimensio ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 181 starve. A mother in Nuevas Brisas del Mar, Ecuador says, ‘In the last tw ...

182 Poverty and Hunger Exhaustion and poverty of time The sheer exhaustion and lack of energy many poor people experience is eas ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 183 to rob. No, I’d rather see him alone, isolated, like they say in school, ...

184 Poverty and Hunger mean helplessness and having no control over sources of one’s living and therefore no control over one’s ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 185 about lack of money’; from Gowainghat, Bangladesh, ‘to have a life free ...

186 Poverty and Hunger afford to receive guests in our houses, or visit friends and relatives. It was for that reason that we co ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 187 participants, though, this experience is common, acute and agonizing, an ...

188 Poverty and Hunger In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese children summarize their feelings about the consequences of being poor as ...

Well-being and Ill-being: The Good and the Bad Life 189 enough to eat; that they have to accept beatings from others and can do ...

8 Who Will Feed China? L. Brown Overview: The Wake-up Call We often hear that the entire world cannot reasonably aspire to the U ...

Who Will Feed China? 191 and incomes rose. They have also assumed that rapid growth in food production in China would continue i ...

192 Poverty and Hunger to avoid the decline in production that occurred in Japan, it must either be more effective in protecting ...

Who Will Feed China? 193 ing some grain into pork, poultry and eggs. The immediate challenge facing China is not averting starva ...

194 Poverty and Hunger projected to add 490 million people between 1990 and 2030, swelling its population to 1.6 billion – the e ...

Who Will Feed China? 195 Resisting the import of grain throughout most of 1994, Beijing let prices rise as much as possible to e ...

196 Poverty and Hunger though that may be. This farsightedness and the political courage of the govern- ment of China deserve re ...