A publication of the Asian Development Bank No. 7     April - June 2010
Developing Asia
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FOCUS: Food Security ●

  • A Growing Hunger
    With more than 50% of world demand for food expected to come from Asia, the biggest challenge leaders in the region may yet face is how to feed the hungry.

  • Food Security Across Asia
    Almost two-thirds of the world's 1.02 billion undernourished live in Asia and the Pacific.

  • The Hunger Monger
    An exclusive interview with financier Jim Rogers, a bestselling author, professor, and outspoken commentator on commodities and food security

  • Seeds of Controversy
    Multinationals are racing to breed the new generation of staple crops, raising debate over patents and market access for poor farmers.

  • Asia's Organic Sprouts
    A tendency toward protectionism and a bias for Western markets is limiting the development of organic agriculture in the region

  • Warming Globe Cools Hopes
    Frequent natural disasters and extreme weather conditions may threaten the region's food supply.

  • Digging Into the Green Revolution
    The green revolution was once thought to be the world's salvation from hunger, but there are still more than 1 billion undernourished people worldwide despite decades of dramatic increases in food production.
ARTICLES ●
  • Just Give Them the Money
    Unconditional cash transfers–or giving the poor money with no strings attached–are challenging conventional views on development work.
  • Easy Targets
    More aid workers are being killed worldwide than armed United Nations peacekeepers. The escalating number of attacks is making development work unacceptably dangerous in many parts of the world.
  • Let's Make a Deal
    The debilitating effect of the global economic crisis on poor nations is underscoring the need for a middle ground between defaulting on foreign debt and making populations suffer in order to make payments.
  • Profiles in Development: The Meter Man
    Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority's Ek Sonn Chan has put his life on the line to provide clean, cheap water to the Cambodian capital's poorest neighborhoods.
  • Reconnaissance: Saving the World, One Vacation at a Time
    Tourists in Nepal are being given the chance to use their professional skills while on vacation in what is sometimes called "voluntourism."
DEPARTMENTS ●
Off the Press
  • Global Crisis Fuels Child Sex Trade
  • A Victory for Rickshaw Pullers
  • Profits and Preservation
  • Battling Gender Bigotry
  • Childhood Povery Hits Hard
  • Public Sector Can't Solve Global Poverty
  • The Myth of Microloans
On the Web
  • Take this Job and Google It: UNjobs Association of Geneva
  • A Disaster Waiting to Happen: Asia Emergency and Disaster Map
Off the Shelf
  • After the Ice: Life, Death and Geopolitics in the New Arctic
  • The Aid Trap: Hard Truths about Ending Poverty
  • The Routes of Man: How Roads are Changing the World and the Way We Live Today
  • Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System–and Themselves
  • Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World
  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
On the Record
  • Queen Rania Al Abdullah
  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon
  • Pope Bendict XVI
  • Eric Schmidt
  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu
  • Ireland Prime Minister Mary Robinson
Bringing Food Security to the Table

Perhaps no issue casts a harsher light on social inequities than the growing number of people who grow hungry everyday. According to the Food and Agriculture of the United Nations (FAO), more people go hungry in the world today than at any time since 1970. An estimated 1.02 billion people were undernourished worldwide in 2009, 642 million of whom lived in Asia and the Pacific, the FAO reports.

Ann Quon
Publisher
Asian Development Bank

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