Revised Research Paper Assignment Due In Class May 5 2004 No Electronic Submissions The objective of the research paper is to allow you to learn about hunger and poverty in ONE DEVELOPING COUNTRY By focusing on just one country you will be able to go into greater depth and detail than possible in class or in the texts You do NOT need to get my approval for your choice of country or topic but I will be glad to talk with you or e mail with you about them at any time the sooner the better The paper is worth 20 points The paper should have two main parts 1 An overview of hunger and poverty 2 Topic of your choice to cover in greater detail The first part should be one page of bullets The second part should be 5 6 pages of text PART 1 AN OVERVIEW OF HUNGER AND POVERTY in the country selected following as closely as possible the main topics of the course Your outline might look like this a biology of malnutrition e g what are the main nutritional problems in the country you ve chosen b national and maybe internal regional data on dimensions of hunger and poverty past trends current situation prospects c food production history recent changes prospects problems constraints etc d natural resource environmental constraints problems opportunities e population growth history recent changes prospects etc f economic policies other policies g programs for feeding for food production for disease control for development etc PART 2 TOPIC OF YOUR CHOICE IN YOUR CHOSEN COUNTRY The topic must of course relate to hunger or poverty You may want to delve more deeply into one of the topic areas covered in part one above or you may select another topic or focus on one specific program to alleviate hunger poverty or a specific problem regarding poverty and hunger The choice is yours REFERENCES Seek guidance from our Steenbock librarians Bev Phillips and Bob Sessions who came to class last month You need to use at least five refereed print publications journal articles and or books in addition to internet references The print references must contribute not just be window dressing Your internet references must show who has posted the information AND provide your evaluation of the source s objectivity and reliability Anything and everything goes up on the net by all sorts of organizations and people If you use net resources you must know enough about the site to be able to evaluate the information reliable objective reflecting a point of view advocacy and you need to supplement your citation with a note about this It is sufficient to simply say that it is an official government or UN site or the site of a well known organization such as IFPRI If not then explain more about the site and your evaluation of it Here are some sites to get you started on the net Some of these have good search engines through which you may find useful papers to download IFPRI http www ifpri org FAO http www fao org FAO data use FAOSTAT through the Reference page on the library website UNDP http www undp org World Bank http www worldbank org World Resources Institute http www wri org wri World Watch Lester Brown http www worldwatch org The electronic reserves on the our library page have examples of good papers from past years They are on Brazil China Mexico Philippines and Chad Get started soon If you have trouble getting started or get stuck let me know so I can try to help Ken Shapiro