ABSTRACT
Analyses of hunger, famine or malnourishment are often written without reference to global processes which have structured and continue to structure the geography of food production and distribution. So undernourishment in Bangladesh, for example, is analysed with reference to internal factors alone: land ownership patterns, floods, urbanisation, etc. These national perspectives are important (see Chapter 4) but they must be understood within a larger geographical and historical frame. There are several compelling reasons why an international perspective is required for an understanding of world hunger.
