Barrett, Christopher B. (contributor) - 2008 - Rev.
Food systems and the escape from poverty and ill‐
health traps in sub‐Saharan Africa
Christopher … B. Barrett
Cornell University
May 2008 revision
Abstract: Millienium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day … both stubbornly persistent and closely associated with widespread severe malnutrition
– “ultra hunger” – and ill health. Indeed, ill health, malnutrition and ultra‐poverty are mutually
reinforcing …