World hunger
By: Liz Young.
Series: Routledge introductions to development
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Food supply -- Developing countries.; Hunger -- Developing countries.
Description: World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agriculture production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local. Globalisation and access to food in the global supermarket is examined.

Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-176) and index.