Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.
Learn more about Jahi and his work on his personal website.
By:
M. Jahi Chappell
Foreword by:
Frances Moore Lappé
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780520293083
ISBN 10: 0520293088
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 19 January 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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A / AS level
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Foreword by Frances Moore Lappé Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Food and Famine Futures, Past and Present 2. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and Beginning to End Hunger 3. Belo Horizonte: All Five A’s on the Horizon 4. Multiple Streams and the Evolution of the Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security 5. Farm, Farmer, and Forest: SMASAN and the Environment 6. Conclusions: Belo Horizonte and Beyond Abbreviations Notes References Index
M. Jahi Chappell is a political agroecologist with training in ecology and evolutionary biology, science and technology studies, and chemical engineering. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University, a Fellow of FoodFirst/the Institute for Food and Development Policy, and an Adjunct Faculty member of the School of the Environment at Washington State University.
Reviews for Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Beyond
It is tempting for socialists to argue simply that the problem is capitalism and that only a socialist, post-capitalist world can feed the world's population healthily and sustainably. M. Jahi Chappell's important study shows that this is wrong. -- (07/04/2018) M. Jahi Chappell provides a necessary antidote to those who claim hunger cannot be alleviated. -- (07/18/2018)
