World hunger / edited by Claire Stanford.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Reference shelf ; v. 79, no. 5Publication details: Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Company, 2007.Description: viii, 198 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780824210717 (alk. paper)
  • 0824210719 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HC 79 .F3 W65 2007
Contents:
The slow and silent killer: what causes famine? -- Starved for attention / Susan Sechler -- Starving season / Samuel Loewenberg -- Africa sinks deeper into despair as famine worsens / Rob Crilly -- From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen -- Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez -- Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer -- Famines in the world today -- Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg -- So little to eat / Mike Crawley -- Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi -- Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes -- Glimpses of a hermit nation: trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick -- Relief efforts: aid versus development -- Fighting world hunger / Ryan Swanson -- Food sovereignty: ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- Starving for the cameras / The Economist -- The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez -- When food aid doesn't solve Africa's problems / Edgar Batte -- Localized food aid / Alexandra Starr -- Women and children: greatest victims, greatest hope -- Hunger: the silent emergency / Jan Goodwin, Marie Claire -- Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines -- Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg -- The face of famine / Anderson Cooper -- Promising solution or risky experiment? The biotechnology debate -- Hunger and the biotech wars / Peter Pringle -- Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis -- Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh -- Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today -- Food stamps and farm subsidies: hunger in America -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen -- Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein -- No longer hungry, just folks of 'low food security' / Marie Cocco -- Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English -- Appendix -- United Nations Millennium declaration. September 18, 2000.
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Collection of articles repinted from various journals and newspapers.

The slow and silent killer: what causes famine? -- Starved for attention / Susan Sechler -- Starving season / Samuel Loewenberg -- Africa sinks deeper into despair as famine worsens / Rob Crilly -- From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen -- Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez -- Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer -- Famines in the world today -- Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg -- So little to eat / Mike Crawley -- Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi -- Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes -- Glimpses of a hermit nation: trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick -- Relief efforts: aid versus development -- Fighting world hunger / Ryan Swanson -- Food sovereignty: ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- Starving for the cameras / The Economist -- The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez -- When food aid doesn't solve Africa's problems / Edgar Batte -- Localized food aid / Alexandra Starr -- Women and children: greatest victims, greatest hope -- Hunger: the silent emergency / Jan Goodwin, Marie Claire -- Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines -- Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg -- The face of famine / Anderson Cooper -- Promising solution or risky experiment? The biotechnology debate -- Hunger and the biotech wars / Peter Pringle -- Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis -- Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh -- Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today -- Food stamps and farm subsidies: hunger in America -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen -- Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein -- No longer hungry, just folks of 'low food security' / Marie Cocco -- Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English -- Appendix -- United Nations Millennium declaration. September 18, 2000.

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