World hunger
Subtitle: 10 myths
By: Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins
Contributors: Collins, Joseph, 1945- author
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780802123466
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Poverty; Nutrition policy; Agriculture and state; Starvation; Social policy; Food supply
Other titles: World hunger :
Description: "From best-selling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the 21st century's definitive book on world hunger. Driven by the question, 'Why hunger despite an abundance of food?' Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions--from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of U.S. foreign aid, and more." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Myth 1 : Too little food, too many people; title: Myth 2 : climate change makes hunger inevitable; title: Myth 3 : Only industrial agriculture & GMOs can feed a hungry world; title: Myth 4 : Organic & ecological farming can't feed a hungry world; title: Myth 5 : Greater fairness or more production?  We have to choose; title: Myth 6 :  The free market can end hunger; title: Myth 7 : Free trade is the answer; title: Myth 8 : U.S. foreign aid is the best way to help the hungry; title: Myth 9 : It's not our problem; title: Myth 10 : Power is too concentrated for real change - It's too late.