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Title
World hunger / edited by Claire Stanford.
Format
Book
Published
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Company, 2007.
Description
viii, 198 p. ; 26 cm.
Other contributors
Stanford, Claire.
Series
The Reference shelf ; v. 79, no. 5
Notes
Collection of articles repinted from various journals and newspapers. Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-194) and index.
Contents
  • I. The slow and silent killer : what causes famine?
  • Starved for attention / Susan Sechler
  • How the world is getting hungrier each year / Paul Vallely
  • From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen
  • Africa needs democracy as much as debt relief / Steve Karlen
  • Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez
  • Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer
  • II. Famines in the world today
  • Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg
  • Season of many hungers / The Nation
  • Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi
  • Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes
  • Glimpses of a hermit nation : trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick
  • III. Relief efforts : aid versus development
  • Fighting world hunger : U.S. food aid policy and the Food for Peace program / Ryan Swanson
  • Food sovereignty : ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal
  • Starving for the cameras / The Economist
  • Vast lands, epic journeys, terrible sights / James R. Peipert
  • The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez
  • IV. Women and children : greatest victims, greatest hope
  • Do-it-yourself famine fight / Kirsten Scharnberg
  • Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines
  • Famine in East Africa : littlest victims of drought, poverty / Anna Badkhen
  • Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg
  • The opposite of obesity : undernutrition overwhelms the world's children / Carol Potera
  • V. Promising solution or risky experiment? : the biotechnology debate
  • So shall we reap / Peter Pringle
  • Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis
  • Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh
  • Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today
  • VI. Food stamps and farm subsidies : hunger in America
  • Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman
  • America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen
  • Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein
  • No longer hungry, just folks of "low food security" / Marie Cocco
  • Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English
  • Appendix. United Nations Millennium Declaration / United Nations General Assembly.
Subject headings
Famines. Food supply. Hunger--Prevention. Food relief.
ISBN
9780824210717 (alk. paper) 0824210719 (alk. paper)

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