The new breadline : hunger and hope in the twenty-first century
(2024)

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PUBLISHED
Random House Inc 2024
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024
EDITION
First edition
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ISBN/ISSN
9780593321683, 0593321685 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"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"--