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| Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition | ||
| Beyond Guilt and Fear | 1 | |
| Ch. 1 | Myth 1: There's Simply Not Enough Food | 8 |
| Ch. 2 | Myth 2: Nature's to Blame | 15 |
| Ch. 3 | Myth 3: Too Many Mouths to Feed | 25 |
| Ch. 4 | Myth 4: Food vs. Our Environment | 41 |
| Ch. 5 | Myth 5: The Green Revolution Is the Answer | 58 |
| Ch. 6 | Myth 6: Justice vs. Production | 85 |
| Ch. 7 | Myth 7: The Free Market Can End Hunger | 98 |
| Ch. 8 | Myth 8: Free Trade Is the Answer | 109 |
| Ch. 9 | Myth 9: Too Hungry to Revolt | 122 |
| Ch. 10 | Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry | 129 |
| Ch. 11 | Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Hunger | 147 |
| Ch. 12 | Myth 12: Food vs. Freedom | 164 |
| Beyond the Myths of Hunger: What We Can Do | 171 | |
| Notes | 179 | |
| What We Can Do: A Resource Guide | 247 | |
| About Food First | 255 | |
| About the Authors | 259 | |
| Index | 261 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Neil Shiroma
reviewed World Hunger: Twelve Myths on April 04, 2013
World Hunger
This one really makes you rethink your ideas about hunger. The authors take each of the presumed causes and presumed cures for hunger and show why they are not accurate and will not work. Each chapter in well documented, making it a little harder to read, but easier to believe. Toward the end, it begins to feel like a science fiction novel in the vein of 1984. A little scary in that respect.
They assert that the free trade legislation, agricultural trade laws, and even hunger relief efforts go to support the acquisition of more land by the big international corporations, reducing the land owned by individual families. Even when a smaller country is exporting huge amounts of food products, local people are still starving, because it is the international corporations that are doing the exporting, and sending the money out of the country.
The only solutions, they say, are rather dramatic. They call for land redistribution, and greater sharing by the big international agricultural giants. They call for a balance between the free market and government regulation, in the interest of everyone having a way to produce enough to eat.
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