Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty - Couverture rigide

Thurow, Roger; Kilman, Scott

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1586485113 ISBN 13 : 9781586485115

Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Thurow Roger Kilman Scott

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Financial Times
“Thurow and Kilman are journalists who have covered famines in Africa, agricultural policy in the corridors of Washington and Brussels, and food commodities markets in Chicago. Yet their book is more than just a rough first draft of history. While grounded in colourful, entertaining reportage, Enough also displays a depth of thought and research more commonly found in academic studies. Well-chosen anecdotes bring the issues to life. Nothing could illustrate the shortcomings of US food aid policy, in which Washington sells American farmers' output in Africa rather than sending money to buy local food, better than a dialogue between an Ethiopian farmer and a US executive at a food aid meeting in Addis Ababa. The farmer asks the executive enthusiastically: ‘Can you help our farmers sell their beans in America?’ He receives an unexpected answer: ‘Actually, we represent American bean growers.’

AG Week
“I recently received my copy of “Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.” Every person connected to the food industry should read it.”

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution” succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.

In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: PublicAffairs
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1586485113
• ISBN 13: 9781586485115
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336