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The impact of HIV/AIDS on food assistance needs in sub‐Saharan Africa has created what may or may not be seen as a new emergent variant of famine. This chapter provides a case study from Zambia that reveals contested strategies for both defining and confronting food insecurity and HIV/AIDS. Coordinated responses to the expanding HIV/AIDS health and nutrition crisis must be understood in light of the Zambia's resistance to genetically modified (GM) food aid during the 2002–03 food crisis. Overall the chapter will emphasize lessons learned and highlight best practices for enhancing food security in the face of HIV/AIDS.

Food and the Status Quest: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. Polly Wiessner and Wulf Schiefenhövel. eds. Providence, RI: Berghahn Books, 1996. 294 pp.

Discusses issues of CAM and society, including its relationship to biomedicine, in the US and other countries, with examples from India, China, Russia, Africa, Guatemala, and native North America; prospects; 13 articles. Contents: Why not call modern medicine "alternative"? by Don G. Bates; Policy, the public, and priorities in alternative medicine research, by Wayne B. Jonas; The emerging socioeconomic and political support for alternative medicine in the United States, by Michael S. Goldstein; Paying for alternative medicine: the role of health insurers, by Robert Tillman; The raw and the organic: politics of therapeutic cancer diets in the United States, by David J. Hess; Asian medicine in America: the Ayurvedic case, by Sita Reddy; Unani Tibb: history, theory, and contemporary practice in South Asia, by Helen E. Sheehan and S.J. Hussain; Remodeling the arsenal of Chinese medicine: shared pasts, alternative futures, by Volker Scheid; "Curing and crippling": biomedical and alternative healing in post-Soviet Russia, by Julie V. Brown and Nina L. Rusinova; Traditional medicine in Africa, by Nancy Romero-Daza; Staying healthy: evangelism and health perception differences by gender in a Guatemalan marketplace, by Michael B. Whiteford; Native American traditional and alternative medicine, by Susan L. Johnston; Moving lines and variable criteria: differences/connections between allopathic and alternative medicine, by Fred M. Frohock.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe. Each chapter is drawn from diverse cultural contexts and geographic areas, addressing local challenges of ongoing food and health system transformations. They illustrate forms of resistance, resilience, and adaptations of food systems to climate change. Fourteen chapters present global case studies directly address the United Nation's sustainable development goals and the Food and Agriculture Organization's global call to action for transforming agriculture addressing food security and nutrition, and the health of populations impacted by climate change and public health issues. This edited volume includes research on 1 enhancing food sovereignty and food security for underserved populations, with a particular focus on indigenous peoples 2 improving locally contextualized definitions and measurements of climate change resilience, food security, hunger, nutrition, and health 3 informing public health programs and policies for population health and nutrition and 4 facilitating public and policy discourse on sustainable futures for community health and nutrition in the face of climate change and natural disasters, including ongoing and future pandemics or emergencies. Within this book, readers discover an array of approaches by authors that exemplify the mutually engaged and reciprocal partnerships that are community driven and support the positive transformation of the people with whom they work. By doing so, this book informs and drives a global sustainable future of scholarship and policy that is tied to the intersectionality and synergisms of climate change resilience, food security, food sovereignty, nutrition, and community health--