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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/167505372 Title: World hunger Author: Claire Stanford Publisher: Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007. ISBN/ISSN: 9780824210717 0824210719 OCLC:167505372

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World hunger

Author:	Claire Stanford
Publisher:	Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007.
Series:	The reference shelf, v. 79, no. 5
Edition/Format:	Book : English
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Claire Stanford Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780824210717 0824210719
OCLC Number:	167505372
Notes:	Collection of articles repinted from various journals and newspapers.
Description:	viii, 198 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Preface -- [pt]. 1. The slow and silent killer : what causes famine? -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Starved for attention / Susan Sechler -- 2. How the world is getting hungrier each year / Paul Vallely -- 3. From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen -- 4. Africa needs democracy as much as debt relief / Steve Karlen -- 5. Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez -- 6. Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer -- [pt]. 2. Famines in the world today -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg -- 2. Season of many hungers / The Nation -- 3. Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi -- 4. Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes -- 5. Glimpses of a hermit nation : trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick -- [pt]. 3. Relief efforts : aid versus development -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Fighting world hunger : U.S. food aid policy and the Food for Peace program / Ryan Swanson -- 2. Food sovereignty : ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- 3. Starving for the cameras / The Economist -- 4. Vast lands, epic journeys, terrible sights / James R. Peipert -- 5. The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez -- [pt]. 4. Women and children : greatest victims, greatest hope -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Do-it-yourself famine fight / Kirsten Scharnberg -- 2. Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines -- 3. Famine in East Africa : littlest victims of drought, poverty / Anna Badkhen -- 4. Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg -- 5. The opposite of obesity : undernutrition overwhelms the world's children / Carol Potera -- [pt]. 5. Promising solution or risky experiment? : the biotechnology debate -- Editor's introduction -- 1. So shall we reap / Peter Pringle -- 2. Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis -- 3. Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh -- 4. Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today -- [pt]. 6. Food stamps and farm subsidies : hunger in America -- Editor's introduction -- 1. Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- 2. America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen -- 3. Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein -- 4. No longer hungry, just folks of "low food security" / Marie Cocco -- 5. Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English -- Appendix : United Nations Millennium Declaration / United Nations General Assembly -- Bibliography -- Books -- Web sites -- Additional periodical articles with abstracts -- Index.
Series Title:	The reference shelf, v. 79, no. 5
Responsibility:	edited by Claire Stanford ; editorial advisor Lynn.m Messina.

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