World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, Luis Esparza
The Revised and Updated Edition of the Classic on World Hunger from the Internationally Recognized Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First.
The completely revised Second Edition includes:
o Substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War
o Global food production vs. population growth
o Changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world
o The shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order
o Structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies
o Trade liberalization and free trade agreements
o Famine and humanitarian interventions
o The Third Worldization of First World nations
In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), Lappé, Collins, and Rosset examine head-on the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries, as well as the misconceptions that have obscured our own national, social, and humanitarian interests. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, World Hunger: Twelve Myths shakes many tenaciously held beliefs; but most important, it convinces readers that by standing together with the hungry we can advance not only humanitarian interests, but our own well-being.
Reviews
”World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.” -- Noam Chomsky
“A marvelously lucid message: the most important cause of death and disease is hunger; the remedy is food; the remedy exists. Their message swiftly demolishes the myths and powerfully arms us for the political task of ending hunger, here and throughout the world.”—Dr. Barry Commoner
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
Beyond Guilt and Fear
Chapter 1 - Myth 1: There’s Simply Not Enough Food
Chapter 2 - Myth 2: Nature’s to Blame
Chapter 3 - Myth 3: Too Many Mouths to Feed
Chapter 4 - Myth 4: Food vs. Our Environment
Chapter 5 - Myth 5: The Green Revolution is the Answer
Chapter 6 - Myth 6: Justice vs. Production
Chapter 7 - Myth 7: The Free Market Can End Hunger
Chapter 8 - Myth 8: Free Trade is the Answer
Chapter 9 - Myth 9: Too Hungry to Revolt
Chapter 10 - Myth 10: More US Aid Will Help the Hungry
Chapter 11 - Myth 11: We Benefit from their Hunger (with Fuyuki Kurasaw)
Chapter 12 - Myth 12: Food vs. Freedom
Beyond the Myths of Hunger: What We Can Do
Notes
What We Can Do: A Resource Guide
About Food First
About the Authors
Index