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standards of health in the home. Empowering women in these ways will
have the greatest impacts benefiting
hungry people across the world.
Readers of the Journal of Nutrition
Education and Behavior will find this
book to be a useful textbook, resource,
or research reference in an academic
setting. This book will also be useful
for governments, international aid organizations, donor partners, and individuals planning an intervention in a
developing country.
Food Security in the Developing
World. Ashley J. 2016. Academic
Press, an imprint of Elsevier, 50
Hampshire St, 5th Fl, Cambridge,
MA 02139. Softcover book, 209 pp,
$79.95, ISBN: 978-0-12-801594-0.
This book captures the essence of the
complex challenge of providing humankind
with access to nutritious and safe food.
—Academic Press
John Ashley defines food insecurity
as
not merely about the concepts of
hunger and undernutrition, but
the experience of these by those
affected by or vulnerable to it,
and the anguish of being unsure
when one can next provide food
for one's family.
Anyone interested in unraveling and
tackling this complex issue will learn a
great deal from his book. Mr Ashley defines the vocabulary used throughout
the book in Chapter 1. This chapter
sets the stage for subsequent chapters
that explore the causes, mitigation,
and prevention of food insecurity.
Although it reads like a textbook,
photographs, charts, and tables sprinkled throughout highlight specific
projects that break up the weighty
chapter topics. Case studies covering
global and country food security
issues are not included in the book,
but rather are housed on a companion
Web site.1
The case studies cover the continents that make up the developing
world: Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. A concluding chapter provides recommendations for
action now and in the future. Finally,
a glossary and bibliography complete
the book.
The author ultimately concludes the
book with a proposal: Focus all efforts
on one priority issue: empowering
woman through education, reproductive choices, income equity, and better
Joanne Lyford, MBA, RD, LD, CDE,
Oregon State University Extension, Family and Community Health, 5444 B SE
International Way, Portland, OR 97222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneb.2017.01.010
Cite this article as Lyford J. Food
Security in the Developing World
[New Resources for Nutrition Educators]. J Nutr Educ Behav.
2017;49:451.
REFERENCE
1. Ashley J. Food Security in the Developing
World. http://booksite.elsevier.com/
9780128015940/index.php. Accessed
February 22, 2017.
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