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AN: PA24A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: The Geographical and Biophysical Correlates of Hunger and Infant Mortality: Lessons from CIESIN's Poverty Mapping Activities
AU: * de Sherbinin, A M
EM: adesherbinin@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: CIESIN, Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Balk, D
EM: dbalk@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: CIESIN, Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Chen, R S
EM: bchen@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: CIESIN, Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Levy, M
EM: mlevy@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: CIESIN, Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AU: Storeygard, A
EM: astoreygard@ciesin.columbia.edu
AF: CIESIN, Columbia University, P.O. Box 1000, Palisades, NY 10964 United States
AB: This paper reports on a collection of recent efforts to integrate global spatial datasets and survey microdata to investigate drivers of hunger and infant mortality. They were motivated by a desire on the part of the United Nations Millennium Project to understand the conditions under which the world's poor and hungry live, for the purpose of improving the diagnosing the causes of poverty and hunger, designing interventions, and understanding the interactions among different Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). First, at the global level, it reports on a number of explorations that were undertaken to characterize the large-scale distribution of the world's poor in terms of climatic, topographic, land cover, ecosystem, and hydrologic factors. Second, at the regional level, it reports on an analysis of the correlates of hunger in Africa. Third, it reports on work combining survey microdata with spatial data in a study of infant mortality in West Africa. Lastly, it discusses ongoing work to combine these two scales at the continental and global scale in the context of drivers of hunger.
DE: 1809 Desertification
DE: 1812 Drought
DE: 1836 Hydrologic budget (1655)
SC: Public Affairs [PA]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting