Subject(s): Global Hunger -- Food supply -- Framework for analysis and historical overview -- Contemporary nature and extent of hunger : Terminology, contemporary extent of hunger -- International perspectives on global hunger : Changing geography of global food production and consumption from sixteenth to twentieth century, globalization and transnational corporations TNCs -- National perspectives, gendered fields, women as economic actors, intra house entitlements, sub national perspectives, ethnic and religious minorities, household and food securities, conflict and hunger, empowerment approaches