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“The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food” (The Huffington Post, “Food Tank’s 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List”).

From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century’s authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of US foreign aid, and more.

Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.

“World Hunger . . . should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.” —Noam Chomsky

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One of Food Tank's favorite books of the year"World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action."--Noam Chomsky
"Like its predecessors, this brilliant book distills the truth about the state of global hunger so accessibly and urgently, that you're left not just wiser, but armed and ready for the fight to make the world better."--Raj Patel, author Stuffed and Starved; fellow at Food First; research professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
"A must-read from the world's most trustworthy guides to how we can end hunger. With great clarity, Lappé and Collins not only discredit widespread misconceptions but provide persuasive evidence of what's needed to meet the challenge."--Hilal Elver, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
"Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and [Joseph Collins] demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that keep people from feeding themselves . . . Ultimately, the book's strength is in the clarity of its message. World Hunger is concise, straightforward, hard-hitting . . . Lappé and her co-authors don't just bust long-standing myths and preempt counter-arguments with an armory of research, they build enough nuance into their narrative to provoke you into questioning your own personal beliefs about hunger. And then they tell you what you can do about it. When it comes down to it, that is where its power lies: World Hunger is a manifesto for change, and its call to action has never been more urgent."--Policy Innovations
"The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food. The book takes on difficult issues such as climate change and world population growth, drawing on years of extensive research to create attainable solutions."--Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"

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“The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food” (The Huffington Post, “Food Tank’s 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List”).

From bestselling authors Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins comes the twenty-first century’s authoritative book on world hunger. Lappé and Collins refute the myths that prevent us from addressing the root causes of hunger across the globe. World Hunger: Ten Myths draws on extensive new research to offer fresh, often startling, insights about tough questions—from climate change and population growth to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the role of US foreign aid, and more.

Brimming with little-known but life-changing examples of solutions to hunger worldwide, this myth-busting book argues that sustainable agriculture can feed the world, that we can end nutritional deprivation affecting one-quarter of the world’s people, and that most in the Global North have more in common with hungry people than they thought. For novices and scholars alike, World Hunger: Ten Myths will inspire a whole new generation of hunger-fighters.

“World Hunger . . . should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action.” —Noam Chomsky

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Print Length: 396 pages
Publisher: Grove Press (6 October 2015)
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Language: English
ASIN: B00XAQ1R12
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Below is a review just published by the Carnegie Council. [...]
"World Hunger: Ten Myths" by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins

By Amrita Gupta | January 4, 2016,World Hunger: 10 Myths Carnegie Council

This is a review of the 2015 version of the book World Hunger: Ten Myths.

World Hunger was first published in 1977. Its relevance, nearly 40 years and many iterations later, is testament to its place in the canon of food systems literature. Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and her co-authors demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that keep people from feeding themselves. The arguments, revised and updated as they are, are just as valid today.

At its core, World Hunger is not a book about food, or the absence of food. It is a book about politics. The premise of the book is this: How we think about hunger impedes our actions towards ending it. Indeed, some of the most compelling arguments made in the book outline how actions that were supposedly designed to help—international aid, or the Green Revolution, to name just two—have actually exacerbated the problem.

Hunger, counter to agri-business fear mongering, isn't about the scarcity of grain or land. In fact—and Lappé lists several examples to underscore her point—many of the countries in which hunger is rampant are net exporters of food. By the authors' definition, hunger is a "scarcity of democracy." It is wrought by political, social, and economic inequality. Hunger, then, will exist for as long as people continue to be made powerless—not just in the international arena, but even at the national level, in the village, or within the household.

Nor is hunger about overpopulation. Nowhere in the research, they write, can they find a direct correlation between population density and hunger. Hunger is driven by inequality and poverty; the rest is politics. And that 9 billion by 2050 we keep reading about? According to the research Lappé presents, the population will stabilize thereafter, and will remain well within the planet's carrying capacity.

Hunger cannot be blamed on climate change or natural disasters, either. Floods, famines, and droughts have always been weathered by resilience. What makes people more vulnerable to these events? The short answer: disruptions to their resilience. Again, Lappé offers examples spanning continents and centuries—time and again, from Ireland to Bangladesh to Ethiopia, the root of the problem is socially constructed. The real killers, World Hunger reveals, are monoculture, hoarding, conflict, and debt.

It is heartening that World Hunger dismisses the widely held notion that attempting to feed the world's hungry will destroy the environment. Lappé makes a convincing case for agro-ecology as the solution. Her claim that environmentally sustainable agriculture can be more productive than our current industrial system—or indeed, GMOs—is backed by very encouraging numbers.

Perhaps the most insightful and profoundly disturbing chapters are the ones devoted to the myths that the free market can end hunger. In actuality, Lappé writes, the market is blind to externalities, it responds only to money, and it leads to concentration of power. For all these reasons, it directly contributes to the causes of hunger. World Hunger thus reveals one of the very tenets of neoliberalization to be founded on a falsehood. The authors do outline ways that the market and government can work together to end hunger, but add that this won't happen as long as buying power remains in the hands of a limited few.

Several of the arguments made in World Hunger would have been astonishing when they were first made decades ago; some will be surprising to many still. Globalization and free trade, like the free market, is revealed to be far from the panacea that it was touted to be. World Hunger outlines, in excruciating detail, the disastrous impact that structural adjustment, imposed by the IMF and the World Bank, had on the welfare of the people and environment in developing countries. Trade agreements like NAFTA, and more recently, the TTP and TTIP, Lappé argues, are a race to the bottom; a search for the lowest wages, the most lenient regulations, and the least protected resources. What that inevitably translates to is hunger in the countries providing them.

Ultimately, the book's strength is in the clarity of its message. World Hunger is concise, straightforward, hard-hitting. A book this easy to read won't be lost in the mire of policy wonks or academia. But it is also no blunt instrument. Lappé and her co-authors don't just bust long-standing myths and preempt counter-arguments with an armory of research, they build enough nuance into their narrative to provoke you into questioning your own personal beliefs about hunger. And then they tell you what you can do about it. When it comes down to it, that is where its power lies: World Hunger is a manifesto for change, and its call to action has never been more urgent. After all, if hunger is human-made, it is also reversible.

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Sasha Alyson
5.0 out of 5 starsPassionate, clear, and eye-opening.
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"Africa will never feed itself without buying patented seeds from Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta." "We need to ship them more American food." Myths like these, and many others, are being pushed by Big Agriculture, with help from many directions, including the Gates Foundation. Lappe and Collins make it clear that many of the companies that claim to offer the solution, are actually causing the problem.

Joe Nehme
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It was a great book. Lots of valuable information. Makes you rethink the problems. Everything I thought i knew was wrong. I am dummy. I hate myself. I don't deserve love.