Healthy Food, Farms & Families

Hunger 2007

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Executive Summary

Table of Contents & Acknowledgements

Foreword by David Beckmann

Introduction

• Sidebar: A Primer on Farm Subsidies: How Income-Support Payments Work

Chapter 1: Commodities: Reform Starts Here

• Sidebar: Ethanol: A Convergence of Farm and Energy Policy

Chapter 2: Rural Development: Strengthening Communities

• Sidebar: The 2007 Farm Bill and Rural Development: A Time to Address All of Rural America

Chapter 3: Trade: Farm Policy in the Global Economy

Chapter 4: The Obesity Challenge: Poverty and Malnutrition

• Sidebar: Obesity Trends Among U.S. Adults from 1996-2005

Chapter 5: Nutrition Programs: Protecting Families From Hunger

• Sidebar: Milestones in Food Stamps

Conclusion: Putting Food Into Farming: How to Fix the Farm Bill

Appendix

Endnotes

Acronyms

Glossary

TABLE 1: Global Hunger—Life and Death Indicators

TABLE 2: Global Food, Nutrition and Education

TABLE 3: Hunger, Malnutrition and Poverty

TABLE 4: Economic and Development Indicators

TABLE 5: Economic Globalization

TABLE 6: United States—National Hunger and Poverty Trends

TABLE 7: United States—State Hunger and Poverty Statistics

TABLE 8: United States—Nutrition and Assistance Programs

Sources for Tables

Sponsors

Study Guide

Index

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