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World hunger

Author: Claire Stanford
Publisher: Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007.
Series: Reference shelf, v. 79, no. 5.
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World hunger.
Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007
(OCoLC)608534512
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Claire Stanford
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: Reference shelf, v. 79, no. 5.
Responsibility: edited by Claire Stanford ; editorial advisor Lynn.m Messina.
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