Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization (International Food Policy Research Institute)
The book offers a clear explanation of the agricultural problems confronting the world's hungry. But its value lies in putting these physical challenges in a wider social context, looking at other factors, such as women's education, which affect household food security... It also challenges popular misconceptions—for example, that patents on genes held by multinational companies are hampering farmers in developing countries... [and it] provides a lucid discussion of the problems, and tremendous promise, of trade liberalisation.(Economist)Presents a wide-ranging array of ideas, arguments, facts, and figures, drawing on new insights and research by the authors and others. A very useful and readable book that takes no sides, except that of the poor and hungry.(Appropriate Technology)Rarely can—and with great caution, should—a book be described as a genuine service to our world and our capacity for sympathies and connections. YetEnding Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalizationovercomes the natural skepticism attendant to such an appellation and should inspire readers to think of ending hunger as not only a moral imperative but also an attainable goal.(Benjamin J. BlausteinElectronic Green Journal)Four experts on food and hunger... have written a book,Ending Hunger in Our Time, that makes a persuasive argument: there is no reason in the world for anyone to go hungry—and we can solve the problem in 50 years.(Metro Lutheran)How the world will feed its growing population is the main issue raised in this publication of the International Food Policy Research Institute.(Choice)A very effective synthesis and exposition of the issues related to food security. I know of no other work that brings the various threads of the food security issue together under one cover. It is well written and might even be able to capture the attention of that mythical individual—the very busy policy maker. I would guess that it might also find substantial classroom use.(Vernon W. Ruttan, Regents Professor Emeritus, University of Minnesota)Despite its breadth and complexity, the book argues clearly and readably that we know a lot about how to reduce hunger... It is a hard assessment of what we know and what we can expect in the decades ahead.(from the foreword by Joachim von Braun, director general, International Food Policy Research Institute, and David Beckmann, president, Bread for the World)