Education And World Hunger

This book is the result of Second World Congress of International Association of Educators for World Peace (A.N.G.O., United Nations and UNESCO) on the theme Education and World Hunger. The problem of world hunger was discussed to solve it through the various disciplines of education. Hence most of the contributors of this volume are educationist, sociologists, geographers, historians, scientists, technologists, agriculturists, demographers, hygienists andphilosophers who also hold the highest posts in the different departments of various Universities, and other Institutions of higher learning in India and abroad. The composition of the participant-thinkers is world-wide and from all disciplines. This means that they discuss the problem from different angles. This is nothing but an inter-disciplinary approach to find out solution of nasty problem of world hunger. Thus universities and colleges can be the bet places for study to find out better solution of world hunger. The educational institutions across the nation can be supportive or can play catalytic role for community response to local conditions of hunger and poverty. Hunger and malnutrition should be of central concern to the university programmes. Higher education should be the means for education of world hunger. If the institutions of higher learning of the world engage their intellectual and educational talent in solving the problem of world hunger, the hunger can be eliminated for ever from the face of the earth. The discussions in the book are in the form of address, lectures, papers, panel discussions, proceeding and resolutions and in the last the resume of the Congress. This volume opens a new vista of research and studies in the field of education to study the problem of hunger, and more especially it enriches the newly developed popular discipline-Economics of Education. It is likely to serve as a convenient source book and guide to the persons working and studying in different disciplines of education but are animated by a common concern with the problem of hunger and also to those who are in search of solution to the problem of hunger and want to eradicate poverty not only from the nation but also from the world.