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Local government planning for community food systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Local government planning for community food systems

Over the last couple of decades, local governments have started taking action to address food system challenges. Many innovative food policies have taken place in cities in particular. However, despite major developments spearheaded by visionary local leaders and communities in recent years, local governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) continue to face major challenges in integrating food security, nutrition and sustainable food systems in their agenda. This publication introduces a new knowledge base for understanding food planning and governance processes and models in local governments of low- and middle-income countries, a valuable counterbalance to the prevailing literature and experience from high-income countries. It provides practical insights on the needs, challenges and opportunities in local food planning practice in three countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean. Based on reported cases, this publication offers a broad guiding framework and a methodology for subnational government bodies - including city, metropolitan, regional, distinct and parish governments - that takes into consideration the uniqueness of each local context.

Nourishing Communities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Nourishing Communities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited volume builds on existing alternative food initiatives and food movements research to explore how a systems approach can bring about health and well-being through enhanced collaboration. Chapters describe the myriad ways community-driven actors work to foster food systems that are socially just, embed food in local economies, regenerate the environment and actively engage citizens. Drawing on case studies, interviews and Participatory Action Research projects, the editors share the stories behind community-driven efforts to develop sustainable food systems, and present a critical assessment of both the tensions and the achievements of these initiatives. The volume is unique in it...

Integrating Food into Urban Planning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Integrating Food into Urban Planning

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-11-22
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

The integration of food into urban planning is a crucial and emerging topic. Urban planners, alongside the local and regional authorities that have traditionally been less engaged in food-related issues, are now asked to take a central and active part in understanding how food is produced, processed, packaged, transported, marketed, consumed, disposed of and recycled in our cities. While there is a growing body of literature on the topic, the issue of planning cities in such a way they will increase food security and nutrition, not only for the affluent sections of society but primarily for the poor, is much less discussed, and much less informed by practices. This volume, a collaboration be...

Public Distribution of Foodgrains in Kerala
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Public Distribution of Foodgrains in Kerala

Agricultural production and food availability; Public distribution of food; Ration offtake; The impact of rationing; Relative efficiency of public distribution and income transfer; Economic viability of rationing without central government subsidy.

International Public Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 826
American Musical Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1033

American Musical Theatre

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman and Richard Norton write an engaging narrative blending history, critical analysis, and lively description to illustrate the transformation of American musical theatre through such incarnations as the ballad opera, revue, Golden Age musical, rock musical, Disney musical, and, with 2010's American Idiot, even the punk musical. The Chronicle is arranged chronologically and is fully indexed accordin...

The World Health Organization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

The World Health Organization

A history of the World Health Organization, covering major achievements in its seventy years while also highlighting the organization's internal tensions. This account by three leading historians of medicine examines how well the organization has pursued its aim of everyone, everywhere attaining the highest possible level of health.

Skin-Related Neglected Tropical Diseases (Skin-NTDs): A New Challenge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Skin-Related Neglected Tropical Diseases (Skin-NTDs): A New Challenge

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-07-31
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Skin-Related Neglected Tropical Diseases (Skin-NTDs)—A New Challenge that was published in TropicalMed

Kerala Development Report
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Kerala Development Report

Full of data on various sectors and issues--among them finance, tourism, foreign trade, agriculture, and governance--this report on the state of Kerala is designed to benefit businesses, NGOs, and policy makers. While Kerala has a strong economy and is India's most literate state, areas such as human rights and the treatment of women and minorities leave room for improvement. This extensive reference discusses the constraints and challenges faced by Kerala and provides a blueprint for its socioeconomic progress.