TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kimura, Aya Hirata
AB  - For decades, NGOs targeting world hunger focused on ensuring that adequate quantities of food were being sent to those in need.  In the 1990s, the international food policy community turned its focus to the “hidden hunger” of micronutrient deficiencies, a problem that resulted in two scientific solutions: fortification, the addition of nutrients to processed foods, and biofortification, the modification of crops to produce more nutritious yields.  This hidden hunger was presented as a scientific problem to be solved by “experts” and scientifically engineered smart foods rather than through local knowledge, which was deemed unscientific and, hence, irrelevant.    In Hidden Hunger, Aya Hirata Kimura explores this recent emphasis on micronutrients and smart foods within the international development community and, in particular, how the voices of women were silenced despite their expertise in food purchasing and preparation.
DO  - 10.7591/cornell/9780801451645.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642709
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 829387586
KW  - Sociology
KW  - NGOs
KW  - food policy
KW  - asia
KW  - indonesia
KW  - women
KW  - development
KW  - nutrition
KW  - Golden rice
KW  - Micronutrient
KW  - Wheat flour
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2b84b4e3-ff7c-4d19-ac00-9d9cdff2d7b3/642709.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30793
PB  - Cornell University Press
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PY  - 2013-01-22
SN  - 9780801467691;9780801467684
TI  - Hidden Hunger : Gender and the Politics of Smarter Foods
ER  - 
