Research Catalog

Title

Food first : beyond the myth of scarcity / Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, with Cary Fowler.

Author

Lappé, Frances Moore.

Publication

Boston : Houghton-Mifflin, 1977.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collins, Joseph, 1945-
• Fowler, Cary

Description

xi, 466 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Abstract: Dispelling old myths regarding the root causes of hunger, a prescription for food self-reliance, applicable to developing and industrial countries, is detailed as the only path toward true self-reliance. In question and answer format, commonly accepted obstacles such as insufficient production, inappropriate technology, and discriminatory trade practices in meeting the world's food needs are considered. Hunger is a social problem rather than a technical problem, and calls for America as well as developing countries to explore their values and modes of operation. Putting food first requires that each country meet its own food needs before exports, and requires planning and a struggle against a system that increasingly concentrates wealth and power in a few.

Subject

• Food supply
• Food consumption > Developing countries
• International cooperation
• Developing Countries
• Food Supply
• International Cooperation
• International cooperation
• Food consumption
• Food supply
• Voedselvraagstuk
• food shortage
• hunger
• food economics
• role of developed countries
• role of developing countries
• food production
• food consumption
• food policy
• food aid
• food industry
• ecology
• ILO mentioned
• Agricultural development
• Trade, Agricultural
• Agribusiness
• Economic assistance, U.S
• pénurie alimentaire
• faim
• économie alimentaire
• rôle des pays développés
• rôle des pays en développement
• production alimentaire
• consommation alimentaire
• politique alimentaire
• aide alimentaire
• industrie alimentaire
• écologie
• OIT mentionné
• escasez de alimentos
• hambre
• economía alimentaria
• papel de los países desarrollados
• papel de los países en desarrollo
• producción alimentaria
• consumo alimentario
• política alimentaria
• ayuda alimentaria
• industria de la alimentación
• ecología
• mención de la OIT
• Developing countries > Food consumption
• Developing countries

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• reference.
• bibliographie.
• référence bibliographique.
• bibliografía.
• referencia.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [447]-452.

ISBN

• 0395253470
• 9780395253472
• 0345251504
• 9780345251503

LCCN

77003733

OCLC

• ocm02837752
• 2837752
• SCSB-107069

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library