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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- PART 1 FISH AND NUTRITION -- 1 Introduction -- Background -- Scope -- Notes -- 2 Fish in the World Food System -- Patterns of Fish Consumption -- Fish Trade -- The Edibility Question -- The Problems -- Remedies -- Notes -- 3 The Nutritive Value of Fish -- Nutrients -- Other Values -- World Malnutrition -- The Potential of Fish -- Notes -- 4 Using Fish to Alleviate Malnutrition -- Production -- Processing -- Distribution -- Notes -- PART 2 NATIONAL AND REGIONAL CASE STUDIES -- 5 The Philippines -- Nutrition -- Fisheries -- Action Program -- Notes -- 6 Thailand -- Nutrition -- Fisheries -- Action Program -- Notes -- 7 India -- Production and Disposition -- Nutrition -- Policy Options -- Action Program -- Notes -- 8 Southern Africa -- SADCC -- Country Profiles -- Nutrition Situation -- Options -- Action -- Notes -- 9 The Pacific Islands -- Malnutrition -- Food Trade -- The Fisheries Situation -- Conflicting Interests -- Potentials -- Notes -- PART 3 GUIDELINES -- 10 Fisheries Project Evaluation and Design -- Value of Alleviating Malnutrition -- Relationships to Other Values -- Costs -- Fisheries Project Design -- Notes -- 11 Fisheries Policy -- Policy Interactions -- Exports -- Liaison -- National Action -- International Action -- Motivating the Action -- Notes -- Bibliography.

This work challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end. Hunger ensures that employers make good profits and consumers enjoy cheap goods. Most of the hungry are far away. Those who are well-off have little interest in ending hunger. Action to end it has not matched the talk about it because those who have the power to end the problem are not the ones who have the problem. The powerful care about hunger, but not enough. Hunger analysts typically focus on agriculture yields and interventions with capsules and supplements. They rarely acknowledge that hunger is a deeply social issue that is shaped by the ways in which people treat each other. The central concept that drives the book is that in strong communities, people do not go hungry. Strong communities have high levels of concern about one another's well-being. People may provide food to one another when that is necessary, but more fundamentally, they ensure that all have decent opportunities to provide for themselves. Given decent opportunities, people will not allow themselves or their families to go hungry. There is no shortage of food in the world; there is a shortage of opportunities. People who have decent opportunities either to produce food or to earn money to purchase food will manage to provide for themselves and their families. Here the author argues that if people do not care enough about other people's well-being, there is little prospect for ending hunger in the world. Strengthening communities by building care certainly would not be an easy route to ending hunger. The argument for this approach is that it is true to the realities of the hunger problem. Without adequate caring, the many things that could be done to end hunger will not get done. -- From publisher's website.

Global obligations / George Kent -- Extraterritorial obligations: a response to globalization / Rolf Künnemann and Sandra Ratjen -- International legal dimensions of the right to food / Federica Donati and Margret Vidar -- Holding corporations accountable for the right to food / Mike Brady -- International obligations for infants' right to food / Arun Gupta -- Global action against worm infections, measles, amd malaria / Michael C. Latham -- Public access to seeds and the human right to adequate food / Marc J. Cohen and Anitha Ramanna -- Global support for school feeding / S. Vivek -- Reflections / George Kent -- Recommendations / Mike Brady ... [et al.]

There is, literally, a world of difference between the statements Everyone should have adequate food, and Everyone has the right to adequate food. In George Kent's view, the lofty rhetoric of the first statement will not be fulfilled until we take the second statement seriously. Kent sees hunger as a deeply political problem. Too many people do not have adequate control over local resources and cannot create the circumstances that would allow them to do meaningful, productive work and provide for themselves. The human right to an adequate livelihood, including the human right to adequate food

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework for understanding the rights and obligations of different parties in relation to international humanitarian assistance.


Design/methodology/approach
– Past discourse on rights and obligations of the parties in various types of humanitarian emergencies is critically reviewed. Various moral and legal principles are used to assess that discourse.


Findings
– Many governments emphasize their right to provide international humanitarian assistance, but appear reluctant to acknowledge any obligation to provide such assistance. Claims regarding the right to provide assistance under some conditions should be accompanied by acknowledgment of obligations to provide assistance under some conditions.


Originality/value
– This analysis encourages national governments and international agencies to go beyond asserting their rights to assist to also recognize obligations to assist under some conditions.