Appetite Control
by Joost, Hans-Georg, Joost, Hans-Georg
fromHandbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 209
The volume ""Appetite Control"" provides a comprehensive description of the mechanisms controlling food intake, and thereby energy balance, in the mammalian organism. During the last decade, research in this area has produced a remarkable wealth of information and has characteri…
The UN World Food Programme (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian agency, with over 14,500 staff, 90 per cent of whom work in developing countries, provided food to over 101 million people in 75 countries in 2009, 80 per cent of which was purchased in the developing countries …
This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out its recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before definin…
This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out its recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before definin…
If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son, Howard G. Buffett in 2006, when he announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. Howard set out to help …
Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised, revealing the issues that hinder this mission that are often glossed over.
In a groundbreaking book based on six years of reporting, leading expert on humanitarian aid and development David Rieff offers a review of whether the end of extreme poverty and widespread hunger are within our reach. Some of the most brilliant scientists, world politicians, an…
« In this groundbreaking book, David Rieff offers a masterly review of whether the end of extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach. Rief, a leading expert on humanitarian and development, searches the causes of our food security crisis, as well as what lies behi…
In a groundbreaking book based on six years of reporting, leading expert on humanitarian aid and development David Rieff offers a review of whether the end of extreme poverty and widespread hunger are within our reach. Some of the most brilliant scientists, world politicians, an…
Examining a series of droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, this text analyses this human tragedy. It covers its global history and lasting impacts on world economic development.
