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FROM POVERTY TO POWER37 FAO (2007).38 FAO (2006) The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006.39 World Food Programme (2007).40 FAO (2003).41 There is no universally accepted definition of a food crisis or of acute foodinsecurity, but a working definition would be ‘a situation of unusually severefood insecurity that threatens peoples’ lives and/or livelihoods’. This happenswhen people experience a large reduction in their major source of food due <strong>to</strong>external shock, and are unable <strong>to</strong> make up the difference through newstrategies; when the prevalence of malnutrition is abnormally high for thetime of year, and this cannot be accounted for by either health or other fac<strong>to</strong>rs;when a large proportion of the population or group is using marginal orunsustainable coping strategies; or when people are using coping strategiesthat are damaging their livelihoods in the longer term, or engage in illegal orimmoral activities <strong>to</strong> gain food. Famine is when people are unable <strong>to</strong> meettheir needs through survival strategies or are displaced in<strong>to</strong> camp environments,and malnutrition and deaths increase.42 UN OCHA.43 African Union (2005); Civil Society Organisations for Peace in NorthernUganda (2006).44 FAO (2004) ‘The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004’.45 ‘Cheap no more’ Economist, 6 December 2007.46 FAO (2004) ‘The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets’.47 <strong>Oxfam</strong> International (2005) ‘Food Aid or Hidden Dumping?’.48 FAO,‘Crop Prospects and Food Situation’, December 2007.49 Unfortunately, the term ‘mitigation’ means contradic<strong>to</strong>ry things according <strong>to</strong>the risk being discussed. In climate change it is about reducing emissions,while in discussions on natural disasters it is about reducing potential impact.50 A. Sen (1999) op. cit.51 Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India (2007).52 Author interview, 2007.53 UNAIDS (2006) ‘Global Facts and Figures’.54 UNAIDS (2006) ‘Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic’.55 www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/universal_access_progress_report_en.pdf56 UNAIDS (2006) ‘Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic’.57 UNICEF (2007).58 S. Lewis (2005).59 The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right <strong>to</strong> Health has recognised this fact,and has developed a draft set of guidelines which apply provisions on the right<strong>to</strong> health <strong>to</strong> pharmaceutical companies’ policies and practices.60 F. Farley,‘At AIDS disaster’s epicenter, Botswana is a model of action; duringU.N. conference, leader speaks of national “extinction”, but country planscontinent’s most ambitious programs’, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2001.61 T. Rosenberg (2001).62 WHO press release, March 2007,www.who.int/tb/features_archive/wtbd07_press/en/index.html458

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