Millennium Development Goal #1 is to halve extreme poverty ($1/day per person) and hunger. Progress toward this goal … health, malnutrition and ultra-poverty are mutually reinforcing states that add to the challenge of addressing any one of … of the ultra-poor. The causal mechanisms underpinning the poverty trap in which ultra-poor, unhealthy and undernourished …

shortfalls that might cause undernutrition. This paper explores the empirical relationship between food aid flows per capita from …

The prevailing definition of food security, agreed upon at the 1996 World Food Summit, is "a situation that exists when … of availability, access or utilization, especially poor access due to chronic poverty. Most food insecurity is chronic …