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World hunger : ten myths

Title
World hunger : ten myths / Frances Moore Lappé & Joseph Collins.
Author
Lappé, Frances Moore.
Publication
San Francisco : Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1979.

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Additional Authors
  • Collins, Joseph, 1945-
  • Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland, Calif.)
Description
68 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
Abstract: The concepts of why hunger exists and how the causes are being attacked are presented in the light of a new attitude toward old ideas. The world is capable of producing enough food for every human being. Overpopulation is not the cause; underutilization of land is a far worse problem. Hunger is not caused by food scarcity but by unequal distribution and ownership. These inequalities can be overcome without jeopardizing freedom, justice or the quality of the environment, not through increased foreign aid or limiting agricultural exports, but by attacking the roots of the problems: social attitudes which view the world's hungry not as potential producers but as burdens; control of basic resources by a small minority; concepts which stereotype the poor as incapable; and ineffectual foreign aid.
Subject
  • Food supply
  • Starvation
  • Starvation
  • Food Supply
  • starvation
  • 83.46 development economics
  • Voedselvraagstuk
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
  • 0935028005
  • 9780935028003
LCCN
79119533
OCLC
  • ocm05322144
  • 5322144
  • SCSB-5837
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library