Department - Author 1
Social Sciences Department
Degree Name - Author 1
BS in Social Sciences
Date
12-2009
Primary Advisor
Benjamin Timms
Abstract/Summary
A number of factors led up to the global food crisis of 2008, culminating in the latest spike in worldwide hunger levels. Such a crisis needs to be understood from a structural perspective; relevant information must be taken into account to design adequate responses, and certain mechanisms need to be put in place to bolster the most vulnerable groups from the terrible scourge of hunger. This paper examines the latest global food crisis, looking at the problem from a number of angles: supply-and-demand forces, socio-economic factors, and the effects of international trade policies on global hunger levels. Hunger is a recurring theme to human existence, but the current food crisis provides ample examples of how international development can be redefined and restructured in order to meet the needs of the hungry billion who now walk the earth.
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/socssp/7