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Nature 458, 148 (12 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/458148a; Published online 11 March 2009
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Multiple Academic Positions in Psychology
- University of Toronto-Scarsborough
- Scarborough Ontario, Canada
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Boston, MA
A smarter way to combat hunger
Pedro A. Sanchez1
- Pedro A. Sanchez is senior research scholar and director of tropical agriculture at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, 61 Route 9W, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
Email: psanchez@ei.columbia.edu
Abstract
Traditional approaches to supplying food are an inefficient 'band aid', says Pedro A. Sanchez. New evidence shows that helping farmers to help themselves is more effective and would be six times cheaper.
After decades of progress in the fight to vanquish world hunger, the number of undernourished people is growing again. Estimates from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations suggest that 963 million people1 in poor countries are chronically or acutely hungry — up 109 million from 2004 estimates2.
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