Despite the scale of human suffering inflicted by malnutrition, hunger receives less attention than poverty by donors, lending agencies, and the research community. In this work, world hunger is addressed from a variety of perspectives that are new and relatively under-researched, including attempts to improve measurement tools, the applications of existing tools for empirical analysis using household data, and the impact of trade openness on national food security in developing countries. The book addresses hunger and food security at three distinct levels — national, household, and individual — and presents several technical, regional, and country case studies that facilitate comparisons.
Keywords: hunger, trade, malnutrition, measurement, developing countries