Enough Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

Name: Enough Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
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ISBN: 9781586485115

ISBN-10: 1586485113

ISBN-13: 9781586485115

Edition: 2009

Authors: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman

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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Publication date: 6/23/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.188



Preface



The Unfinished Revolution



Seeds of Change


Mexico, 1944



Flow and Ebb


Oslo, Norway, 1970



Into Africa


Northern Ethiopia, 1984



Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander


Fana, Mali, 2002



Glut and Punishment


Adami Tulu, Ethiopia, 2003



Who's Aiding Whom?


Nazareth, Ethiopia, 2003



Water, Water Everywhere


Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2003



A Diet of Worms


Sudan, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, 2003



Enough is Enough



Resorting to Outrage



"We Can Do Something About This"


Dublin and Seattle



Take with Food


Mosoriot, Kenya



Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back


Around the World



The Missing Links


Kenya and Ghana



The Opening Bell


Chicago to Addis Ababa to Qacha's Nek



Getting Down to Business


Davos to Darfur



Small Acts, Big Impacts


Kenya, Ohio, and Malawi



"We Must Not Fail Them"


Washington, D.C.


Epilogue: Hagirso


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index