The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century - Couverture rigide

Rieff, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1784783382 ISBN 13 : 9781784783389

Editeur : Verso Books, 2015

Synopsis

In 2000 the worlds leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of widening poverty gap and political unrest from the Arab Spring to Latin America. This food crisis has condemned the bottom billion of the worlds population who live on less than $1 a day to a state of constant hunger. In The Reproach of Hunger leading expert on humanitarian aid and development, David Rieff, goes in search of the causes of this food security crisis, as well as the failures to respond to the disaster. In addition to the failures to address climate change, poor governance and misguided optimism, Rieff cautions against the increased privatization of aid, with such organization as the Gates Foundation spending more that the WHO on food relief. The invention of the celebrity campaigner from Bono to Jeffrey Sachs whose business-led solutions have robbed development of its political urgency. The hope that the crisis of food scarcity of food production can be solved by a technological innovation. In response Rieff demands that we rethink the fundamental causes of the worlds grotesque inequalities and see the issue as a political challenge we are all failing to confront.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Rieff is the son of Susan Sontag and Philip Rieff. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He is the author of several books, including the acclaimed At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention; A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis; and Slaughterhouse Bosnia and the Failure of the West. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1784783382
• ISBN 13: 9781784783389
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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