Title:
The new breadline : hunger and hope in the twenty-first century / Jean-Martin Bauer.
ISBN:
9780593321683
9780593467145
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
x, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
Young Haiti: from failed rebellion to mass hunger -- Desert blues: generational hunger in the Sahel -- To deal with the devil: the global rush to grab land -- Starving in a land of plenty: misrule and greed in the Central African Republic -- Forever famines: the Middle East's descent into hunger -- Not war, not peace: feeding a nation after a conflict -- Going viral: the relationship between disease and hunger -- 'P' is for Pygmy: indigenous peoples and the right to food -- Digital food: the ambiguous promise of technology and innovation -- The Black humanitarian: race and the aid system -- Real food: grassroots solutions to feed us all.
Summary:
"The director of Haiti's World Food Program takes aim at the global food crisis--revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere, and what steps we can take to change course"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1405946413
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
