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Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry
- Title
- Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.
- Author
- Ziegler, Jean.
- Publication
- New York : The New Press, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 286 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Uniform Title
- Destruction massive. English
- Alternative Title
- Destruction massive.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-286).
- Contents
- Massacre -- The geography of hunger -- Invisible hunger -- Protracted crises -- Postscript 1: The gaza ghetto -- Postscript 2: Refugees from the North Korean famine -- The children of Crateus -- God is not a farmer -- "No one goes hungry in Switzerland" -- The tragedy of Noma -- The awakening of conscience -- Famine and fatalism : Malthus and natural selection -- Josue de Castro, phase one -- Hitler's "hunger plan" -- A light in the darkness : the United Nations -- Josue de Castro, phase two : A very heavy coffin -- Enemies of the right to food -- The crusaders of neoliberalism -- The horsemen of the apocalypse -- When free trade kills -- Savonarola on Lake Geneva -- The collapse of the WFP and the FAO's impotence -- A billionaire's fear -- Victory of the predators -- "Natural" selection redux -- Jalil Jilani and her children -- The defeat of Jacques Diouf -- Postscript: The murder of Iraq's children -- The vultures of "green gold" -- A great lie -- Barack Obama's obsession -- The curse of sugarcane -- Postscript: Hell in Gujarat -- Criminal recolonization -- The speculators -- The "tiger sharks" -- Geneva, world capital of agri-food speculators -- Land grabs and the resistance of the damned -- The complicity of the western states.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-1247
- ISBN
- 9781595588494
- 1595588493
- LCCN
- 2013005169
- OCLC
- 2013005169
- Author
- Ziegler, Jean.
- Title
- Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.
- Publisher
- New York : The New Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-286).
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-1247