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Title

The paradox of plenty : hunger in a bountiful world / edited by Douglas M. Boucher.

Publication

Oakland, Calif. : Food First Books, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Boucher, Douglas M.
• Boucher, Douglas H.

Description

xviii, 342 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

"Since its founding in 1975, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy has been in the forefront of the struggle to end world hunger. Through its research, Food First has shown that there is more than enough food for every man, woman, and child on the planet, but all too often the poor do not have access to that food. The Paradox of Plenty gathers together excerpts from twenty-seven of Food First's best writings to provide an integrated overview of the world food system, how global politics affect hungry people, and the impact of the free market."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Peasants > Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Poverty > Developing countries
• Food supply > Developing countries
• Income distribution > Developing countries
• Agriculture > Economic aspects > Developing countries
• Economic assistance
• International trade > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part One. The World Food System -- From World Hunger : Twelve Myths : Beyond Guilt and Fear / Frances Moore Lappe ... [et al.] -- From Food First : Beyond the Myth of Scarcity : Why Can't People Feed Themselves? / Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins -- From Taking Population Seriously : A Power Structures Perspective / Frances Moore Lappe, Rachel Schurman -- From Breakfast of Biodiversity : The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction : Slicing up the Rain Forest on Your Breakfast Cereal / John Vandermeer, Ivette Perfecto -- Part Two. The American Connection -- From Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary edition) : Like Driving a Cadillac / Frances Moore Lappe -- From Circle of Poison : Pesticides and People in a Hungry World : The Circle of Poison / David Weir, Mark Shapiro -- From Food First Backgrounder, Spring 1997 : Warning! Corporate Meat and Poultry May Be Hazardous to Workers, Farmers, the Environment, and Your Health / Marc Cooper, Peter Rosset, Julia Bryson -- From Family Farming : A New Economic Vision : The Faustian Bargain : Technology and the Price Issue / Mark Strange -- Part Three. Global Policies and Hungry People -- From Trading Freedom : How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work, and Environment : Free Trade versus Sustainable Agriculture / Mark Ritchie -- From Aid as Obstacle : Twenty Questions about our Foreign Aid and the Hungry : Question : Don't U.S. Food Aid Programs Channel American Abundance to Hungry People Around the World? / Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, David Kinley -- From Food First Backgrounder, Winter 1995 : New Food Aid : Same as the Old Food Aid / Li Kheng Poh, Peter Rosset -- From A Fate Worse than Debt : The World Financial Crisis and the Poor : Latin America : Going to Extremes / Susan George -- From Development Debacle : The World Bank in the Philippines : Development Debacle / Walden Bello, David Kinley, Elaine Elinson -- From Food First Action Alert, Winter 1993 : Creating a Wasteland : The Impact of Structural Adjustment on the South, 1980 to 1994 / Walden Bello, Shea Cunningham, Bill Rau -- Part Four. The Free Market Path -- From Needless Hunger : Voices from a Bangladesh Village : Hunger in a Fertile Land : The Paradox / Betsy Hartmann, James Boyce -- From Food First Action Alert, 1990 : Dragons in Distress : The Economic Miracle Unravels In South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore / Walden Bello, Stephanie Rosenfeld -- From Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas : Basta! / George A. Collier, Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello -- Part Five. Alternatives -- From Kerala : Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State : Lessons from Kerala / Richard W. Franke, Barbara H. Chasin -- From Nicaragua : What Difference Could a Revolution Make? : Getting Off the Pesticide Treadmill / Joseph Collins ... [et al.] -- From Food First Action Alert, Spring 1994 : The Greening of Cuba : Organic Farming Offers Hope in the Midst of Crisis / Peter Rosset, Shea Cunningham -- From Food First Development Report no. 10, June 1996 : The Campesino a Campesino Movement : Farmer-Led, Sustainable Agriculture in Central America and Mexico / Eric Holt-Gimenez -- From Food First Backgrounder, Spring 1996 : Community Food Security : A Growing Movement / Christopher D. Cook, John Rodgers -- From Food First Backgrounder, Fall 1997 : Land Reform from Below : The Landless Worker's Movement in Brazil / Mark S. Langevin, Peter Rosset -- Afterword : Food and Justice in the New Millennium / Peter Rosset -- Epilogue : From Don't be Afraid, Gringo : A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart / Elvia Alvarado, Medea Benjamin -- Turn Your Tears into Strength / Medea Benjamin.

ISBN

0935028714

LCCN

^^^99018244^

OCLC

40738973

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library