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Although international and national initiatives related to food security are receiving attention, other issues, such as contingency planning for famines and other acute food shortages are also important. The adverse effects of these shortages are particularly severe in low-income developing countries and among poorer groups in those countries. Many people have died of famine not because of food production shortages, but because there were serious problems with the food distribution systems, or because vulnerable groups had inadequate purchasing power. Not enough is known about the measures needed to deal with such emergencies in different countries with differing food systems. Actions to mitigate the hardships arising from the scarcities of work, water, and food associated with severe droughts will vary.JV These include improving the exchange entitlements of the people;^/ adopting crop life-saving techniques, introducing alternative crop strategies, and undertaking compensatory cropping programs in irrigated areas; providing drinking water; and preventing and recouping animal losses. ; Non-PR ; IFPRI1; Disaster Prevention and Recovery

"Prepared for the Presidential Commission on World Hunger." ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw;

Over the fifteen years prior to the 1984 publication of this article, East African pastoralists faced food shortages and famine. From the perspective of the mid-1980s, this article analyzes the challenges to solving this problem. Modernization had disrupted already inadequate traditional food systems and continued to threaten pastoralists. "Pastoral development" had been proposed as a means of achieving long-term food security by increasing pastoralists' involvement in national food and economic systems. If pastoral development was to become reality, however, daunting obstacles had to be overcome. Halderman warns that if solutions were not found and implemented there could be heavy costs to the region's pastoralists and governments. Contemporary students of pastoralism can evaluate whether progress was made or not.

Metadata only record ; The relationship between human activity and environmental degradation has been documented in numerous studies. With regard to West Africa, E.P. Stebbing was already warning of ecological degradation due to overcultivation and overgrazing in the 1930s. Less well documented are the reasons why people who understand many of the requirements of ecologically sound farming and herding nonetheless mismanage natural resources to the point of disaster. An examination of the 1968-1973 drought in the Sahel zone of West Africa (formerly French West Africa) suggests that the lack of economic autonomy for Sahelian countries is a major cause not only of their economic stagnation and underdevelopment but equally of the degradation of their ecosystems. Specific policies, initiated during the colonial period and continued by independent governments, can be identified as reducing the ability of West African farmers and herders to exploit their environment with an adequate safety margin. Largely as a result of the 1968-1973 drought, there has been an upsurge of interest in the Sahel on the part of international and national aid agencies. However, it is very possible that the programs devised by these groups will promote neither economic autonomy nor ecological stability for the countries in that region. A development strategy based largely on self-reliance, on the other hand, could the more successful in protecting both the populations and the ecology of the Sahel. [Journal Article; In English; United States] --Medline

"B-215017"--Prelim. p. [1] ; Distributed to depository libraries in microfiche. ; "GAO/RCED-84-155." ; "April 25, 1984." ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Descriptions of approximately 130 government programs available to individual citizens. Besides mental health services, also covers other areas such as transportation, social security, and food. Topical arrangement. Each entry gives program description, beneficiaries, and instructions as to how to apply. Appendix of information centers with addresses and telephonne numbers. ; Descriptions of approximately 130 government programs available to individual citizens. Besides mental health services, also covers other areas such as transportation, social security, and food. Topical arrangement. Each entry gives program description, beneficiaries, and instructions as to how to apply. Appendix of information centers with addresses and telephonne numbers. ; Mode of access: Internet.

In the U.K., coronary heart disease has reached epidemic proportions. It is the commonest cause of death after the age of 35 years and the fastest rate of increase is in early middle age. The epidemic is due mainly to our way of life. The most important factors are dietary, with smoking, physical inactivity and stress also contributing. Twenty independent working parties from different countries have reviewed the dietary evidence and reached a strong consensus on dietary recommendations. Little action has been taken in the U.K. The Coronary Prevention Group has been formed to consider the reasons for this inaction and also the implication for research, the government, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Department of Health and Social Security, the food and agriculture industries, caterers, nutrition education and for individuals, of the dietary recommendations.

Hearings held Feb. 22-May 4, 1977. ; pt. 1. Full Committee. The Presidential request. Public witnesses.--pt. 2. Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs. Policies on arms transfers and military assistance programs.--pt. 3. Subcommittee on Africa. Economic and military assistance programs in Africa.--pt. 4. Subcommittee on International Organizations and programs.--pt. 5. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. Economic and military aid programs in Europe and the Middle East.--pt. 6. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. Economic and and military assistance in Asia and the Pacific.--pt. 7. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs. Economic and military assistance for Latin America.--pt. 8. Subcommittee on International Development. U.S. food policy: options for the futue.--pt. 9. Full committee markup and subcommittee recommendations. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Hearings held Feb. 22- ; pt. 1. Full Committee. The Presidential request. Public witnesses.--pt. 2. Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs. Policies on arms transfers and military assistance programs.--pt. 3. Subcommittee on Africa. Economic and military assistance programs in Africa.--pt. 4. Subcommittee on International Organizations. U.S. voluntary contributions to international organizations and programs.--pt. 5. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East. Economic and military aid programs in Europe and the Middle East.--pt. 6. Subcommitee on Asian and Pacific Affairs. Economic and military assistance in Asia and the Pacific.--pt. 7. Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs. Economic and military assistance legislation for Latin America.--pt. 8. Subcommittee on International Development. U.S. food policy: options for the future.--pt. 9. Full committee markup and subcommittee recommendations. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Contents: UK arms exports to Indonesia to increase: warships, missile launchers, security vehicles and more hawks -- The Law profession as danger work -- UK Hawks sold to Indonesia are combat aircraft -- House of Commons early day motion -- Spotlight on a family of Tapols: two dead, one tried, three detained without trial -- Washington Post journalist refused access to East Timor -- Seth Rumkorem interviewed -- Indonesian NGOs condemn cultural genocide -- Hundreds die in famine-stricken West Papua -- Australian unions support Indonesian workers' fight for the right to organise -- More Acehnese leaders arrested --Indonesia's 1983/84 budget: living standards sacrificed to maintain development spending -- Book review: Like the Shadow of an Eagle? published by Arena, Australia ; A Milestone in the struggle for democracy

Contents: "Unpublicised releases" balance the numbers -- Letter to Tempo: "Where can I find justice?" -- Indonesia again challenged at ILO -- A plea from Savana Jaya -- Defence plea banned -- Strike movement spreads -- Ex-tapols beware! -- Reactions to the strikes -- Colonel Latief's defence -- UN Commission on Human Rights -- Weekly banned -- Heavy hand at Mulawarman University -- Prisoners in Maluku -- Komando Jihad is no more -- Defendant: Dutch State -- Alarico Fernandes - murdered? -- East Timor aid diverted to traders -- PKI blamed for peasant protest -- "Relative self-sufficiency" - and absolute hunger -- International Red Cross urged to increase visits -- Sudomo's good name besmirched

Contents: Thousands of 'B' Tapols will remain after 1979 -- Buru and Savana Jaya -- At least 1000 Tapols in Kalimantan camps -- Indictment of Doddy Chusniati Suriadiredja -- The student of trial -- Defence protests to Supreme Court -- The fate of a Tapol after "release" -- Students defy 'normalisation' -- State Department challenged -- Psycho-deception: enquiry ends in cover-up -- Tapol trials research: preliminary findings -- Moslem detainees released -- Iggi Aid: behind the mask of development -- East Timor -- Hostile reception for Suharto in PNG

Contents: Eleven years -- Release pledges reneged -- Trials: Another death sentence -- Political imprisonment -seen from the inside -- State of health -- Recent arrests -- Timor: Many arrests in West Timor -- The 1977 elections and political freedoms -- Ex-Tapols to Buru? -- IGGI approves 2400 million dollars credit for 1976/77 -- CIA on 1965 events

Contents: A tropical Siberia -- Amnesty report on Indonesia -- Sudomo on releases -- Foreign newsman visits prisons -- The Sawito trial -- Catholic Church takes a stand -- Thousands of students demonstrate -- Censorship: film banned, pamphlet banned -- Underground groups discovered -- East Timor and Irian Jaya: detention and atrocities Supplement: "Buru" issued by: Tapol: British Campaign for the Release of Indonesian Political Prisoners The Devilish Island -- Indonesia: Prison algebra -- Buru, the island of brutality -- Indonesia: a look at the political exile island of Buru -- Prisoners make notorious island reasonably prosperous -- The Far Eastern Economic Review: "The struggle for survival on Buru" by David Jenkins

Contents: Labour camps grow -- British arms sales to Indonesia? -- Indonesia at the I.L.O. -- Buru: some facts -- 26,000 purged -- Malari event: who's guilty? -- Sudomo's new pledges -- Severe sentences continue -- East Timor: "Integration"