Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change
Abstract
Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. predictions. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting the food gap. Here, she shares the story of the epic journey to solve the imperfect relationship between two of our planet’s greatest challenges: climate change and global hunger.
Hot, Hungry Planet focuses on three key concepts that support food security and resilience in a changing world: social, educational, and agricultural advances; land use and technical actions by farmers; and policy nudges that have the greatest potential for reducing adverse environmental impacts of agriculture while providing more food. Palmer breaks down this difficult subject though seven concise and easily-digestible case studies over the globe and presents the stories of individuals in six key regions—India, sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Indonesia—painting a hopeful picture of both the world we want to live in and the great leaps it will take to get there.
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... 15). It often results from wars, internal conflicts, natural disasters, economic shocks, extreme poverty, or seasonal shortages (Vaitla et al., 2009;Palmer, 2017;Utkina et al., 2022). Additionally, poor nutrition is a direct cause of stunting, which the World Health Organization (WHO) defined as children whose "height-for-age is more than two standard deviations below the WHO Child Growth Standards median" ...
For this Capstone, we conducted a theory-based formative process evaluation of the onboarding program at MANA Nutritive Aid Products Incorporated. With its headquarters in Matthews, NC, and its manufacturing facility in Fitzgerald, GA, MANA is a nonprofit firm that supplies ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) to global food aid organizations. The problem of practice for our Capstone was that there had not been a formal evaluation of MANA’s onboarding program, and the leadership team did not think that their onboarding program was effective due to the high turnover of new hires in less than 90 days.
We built a theoretical framework from the extant literature to conduct the evaluation, including eight onboarding content areas and three timing stages. The content areas consisted of rules and policies, politics, performance proficiency, language, organizational goals and values, people, history, and future prospects. The timing stages included the anticipatory stage (pre-entry), the encounter stage (the first 90 days on the job), and the transformation stage (months four through 12). The questions that guided this project included the following:
Q1. To what extent does MANA’s current onboarding program reflect the eight onboarding content areas that the extant research literature indicates make up an effective approach?
Q2. To what extent does MANA’s current onboarding program reflect the structural and timing elements associated with an effective program in the extant literature?
We conducted document reviews and semi-structured interviews to investigate these questions. Our analysis led us to conclude that MANA has partially implemented an onboarding program for its hourly paid manufacturing personnel that reflects the eight content areas and timing elements the extant literature indicates make up an effective approach. Drawing on the findings and the extant literature, we recommended that MANA take the following actions:
• Create an onboarding buddy program;
• Build realistic job previews;
• Construct a structured supervisor meeting framework over the first year of employment; and
• “Sweat the small stuff” by taking eight actions that, while seemingly basic, emerged from the literature as elements to assist in the identity construction of newcomers at little cost to the firm.
Keywords: onboarding, organizational socialization, theory-based formative process program evaluation, new hires, hourly paid manufacturing employees
This monograph describes the marketing research that has been published in the top marketing journals since their inception relating to health care, broadly defined. Over 1,000 articles are summarized across the chapters relating to consumer behavior and food, consumer behavior and other consumption, and business marketing issues. Research from outside of marketing is also briefly reviewed. This monograph celebrates the research that has been accomplished and closes with suggestions for future research.
Around the world, food has probably never been as safe as it is today. However, periodic crises have aroused consumer anxiety and contributed to a general lack of confidence in the agro-industrial system. The diverse nature of these crises increases governments’ and industry difficulties in predicting and tackling them. This book addresses the relations between risk and food theoretically and empirically through case studies from Japan and China.
Part I of the book examines the interaction between theoretical aspects and decision-making. The book theorizes the links between food and risk and analyses the decision-making process in light of risks and governance. The relationship between food risks, governance systems and economic decisions is assessed to explore ideas such as the "pact of nutrition" and the theory of weak signals. Part II examines case studies from China and Japan in the aftermaths of recent crises such as the milk powder scandal in China and food safety following the Fukushima nuclear accident and tsunami in Japan.
This book will be an important resource for scholars, academics and policy-makers in the fields of sociology, economics, food studies, Chinese studies and Japanese studies and theories of risks and safety.
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