Lisa Schmidt 
Food security and the crisis of the new millennium [PDF ebook] 
Empowering women as a tool to achieve food security

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics – Topic: Development Politics, , language: English, abstract: The paper analyses the global challenges of the new millennium: The food price crisis, the financial and economic crisis as well as the ecological crisis. The crisis affect the world´s population, but in some regions such as South Asia or Sub-Saharan Africa, the impacts are disastrous. Food security is threatened and poverty and inequality increase. Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which among other things tend to halve between 1990 and 2015 the proportion of people who suffer from hunger and malnutrition, is moving further away. These developments and current challenges are of serious concern and an opportunity for change.