Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters
The uneven distribution of hunger and nutrition reflects the unequal distribution of power in the food system. In its hourglass shape, the power at the center amplifies poverty and marginalization at both ends of the system: at one end, small-scale farmers and low-paid food producers suffer hardship...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2017
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| author | Hossain, Naomi |
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| description | The uneven distribution of hunger and nutrition reflects the unequal distribution of power in the food system. In its hourglass shape, the power at the center amplifies poverty and marginalization at both ends of the system: at one end, small-scale farmers and low-paid food producers suffer hardship; at the other end, those excluded from or adversely incorporated into globalized food markets face hunger and malnutrition. Transnational corporations’ growing control over what we eat—which often deepens existing inequalities—has generated a wide range of spaces and forms of resistance. Power analysis encourages us to look beyond the obvious and the measurable, to trace the effects of interests operating at multiple levels of the food system, to find opportunities where and when they arise, and to enter spaces where that power can be challenged, resisted, and redistributed. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’ aim of “leaving no one behind” demands approaches to hunger and malnutrition that are both more sensitive to their uneven distribution and more attuned to the power inequalities that amplify the effects of poverty and marginalization in all forms of malnutrition. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1478732025-11-06T07:15:46Z Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters Hossain, Naomi income gender food production food wastes sustainable development goals economic development food sovereignty health food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies hunger socioeconomic environment malnutrition nutrition famine poverty equality obesity food systems women armed conflicts The uneven distribution of hunger and nutrition reflects the unequal distribution of power in the food system. In its hourglass shape, the power at the center amplifies poverty and marginalization at both ends of the system: at one end, small-scale farmers and low-paid food producers suffer hardship; at the other end, those excluded from or adversely incorporated into globalized food markets face hunger and malnutrition. Transnational corporations’ growing control over what we eat—which often deepens existing inequalities—has generated a wide range of spaces and forms of resistance. Power analysis encourages us to look beyond the obvious and the measurable, to trace the effects of interests operating at multiple levels of the food system, to find opportunities where and when they arise, and to enter spaces where that power can be challenged, resisted, and redistributed. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals’ aim of “leaving no one behind” demands approaches to hunger and malnutrition that are both more sensitive to their uneven distribution and more attuned to the power inequalities that amplify the effects of poverty and marginalization in all forms of malnutrition. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:26Z 2024-06-21T09:23:26Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147873 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141853 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Welthungerhilfe Concern Worldwide Hossain, Naomi. 2017. Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters. In 2017 Global Hunger Index: The inequalities of hunger. Chapter 3 Pp 24-29. Washington, DC; Bonn; and Dublin: International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292710_03. |
| spellingShingle | income gender food production food wastes sustainable development goals economic development food sovereignty health food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies hunger socioeconomic environment malnutrition nutrition famine poverty equality obesity food systems women armed conflicts Hossain, Naomi Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title | Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title_full | Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title_fullStr | Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title_short | Inequality, hunger, and malnutrition: Power matters |
| title_sort | inequality hunger and malnutrition power matters |
| topic | income gender food production food wastes sustainable development goals economic development food sovereignty health food policies nutrition policies agricultural policies hunger socioeconomic environment malnutrition nutrition famine poverty equality obesity food systems women armed conflicts |
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