• 1. A FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS. Box 1.1. Floods in North Korea, 1.2. Adulterated Food and Drink in England in the 19th C, 1.3. Disease in Britain in the 19th C. Cholera, 2. THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF HUNGER, Box 2.1. Iron Deficiency, Box 2 .2. Breastfeeding Debate, Box 2.3. The Northeast of Brazil, 3. GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES, Box 3.1. Wheat and the Pampas Box, 3.2. Food Riots, Box 3.3. Get Fresh Box, 3.4. Agri-business, 4. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Box 4.1. China. A Complex Picture Box 4.2. Honduras and Burkina Faso, 4.3. Diversity of Rural Livelihoods, 4.4. Harare 5. GENDER AND HUNGER. Box 5.1. HDI/GDI rankings, Box 5.2. HDI.GDI values, Box 5.3. Contrasts in entitlements in the household Box, 5.4. Female Empowerment, 6. SUB-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES, Box 6.1. Mali Box, 6.2. Trees and Household entitlements, 7. CONFLICT AND HUNGER, Box 7.1. Burundi Box, 7.2. Iraq Box, 7.3. Refugees and Displaced People, Box 7.4. Afghanistan, 8. ALTERNATIVE FUTURES?, Box 8.1. Global Food Trends, Box 8.2. World Summit for Children/World Conference on Nutrition, Box 8.3. Brazil's Campaign Against Hunger, Misery and For Life

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