Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world: Overview
The trend is inescapable: more and more people in the developing world are living in the cities. By 2020, the number of people living in developing countries will grow from 4.9 billion to 6.8 billion. Ninety percent of this increase will be in rapidly expanding cities and towns. More than half the p...
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| author | Garrett, James L. |
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| description | The trend is inescapable: more and more people in the developing world are living in the cities. By 2020, the number of people living in developing countries will grow from 4.9 billion to 6.8 billion. Ninety percent of this increase will be in rapidly expanding cities and towns. More than half the population of Africa and Asia will live in urban areas by 2020. More than three-quarters of Latin Americans already do. Growth in urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition and a shift in their concentration from rural to urban areas will acompany urbanization.... urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition are problems of today, not tomorrow. -- from Text |
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| spelling | CGSpace1562912025-01-10T06:30:09Z Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world: Overview Garrett, James L. food supply food security livelihoods urban programming nutrition The trend is inescapable: more and more people in the developing world are living in the cities. By 2020, the number of people living in developing countries will grow from 4.9 billion to 6.8 billion. Ninety percent of this increase will be in rapidly expanding cities and towns. More than half the population of Africa and Asia will live in urban areas by 2020. More than three-quarters of Latin Americans already do. Growth in urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition and a shift in their concentration from rural to urban areas will acompany urbanization.... urban poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition are problems of today, not tomorrow. -- from Text 2000 2024-10-24T12:43:42Z 2024-10-24T12:43:42Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156291 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Garrett, James L. 2000. Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world: Overview. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 3(1). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156291 |
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| title | Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world: Overview |
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| title_short | Achieving urban food and nutrition security in the developing world: Overview |
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| topic | food supply food security livelihoods urban programming nutrition |
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