Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity

Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity focuses on the human factors involved in building resilience against food and nutrition insecurity in perpetuity, through inter alia better managing risks (such as 'better-spacing' of children), diversifying the asset portfolio if possible, behavioural change and communication strategy for achieving this.

The better the coherence and convergence amongst these human factors to promote sustainable food and nutrition security, the lower the need for their absence to be rectified through post-facto unsustainable 'firemen's work' of humanitarian assistance and CMAM clinics, which were covered in Ashley's volume Food Security in the Developing World.

The book includes references to countries which are not in the fourth (lowest) of the categories prescribed in the UNDP Human Development reports; also, including minority groups in developed countries, such as the hunter-gatherer Inuit communities of Canada to provide an inclusive view of the issues and concerns relevant to addressing food insecurity from a societal standpoint.

Human Resilience Against Food Insecurity will examine human behaviour within all stakeholder groups - from 'civil society', to public and commercial private sectors, and donor partners.