For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the or as the legacy of brutal ...
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Oct 16, 2009
Jayanthi
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This is definitely a well-written and very readable book on hunger and agricultural development. It's fast-paced and filled with personal anecdotes and profiles that make the issue much more concrete and approachable (something that can be a bit difficult when you're talking about subsidies and ag research). The first part of the book is a pretty scathing look at how American agricultural subsidies and insistence on food aid hurt developing countries. The main case study used by the authors
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Nov 22, 2011
Rhett
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I learned more about geo-politics and agriculture than I had ever thought that I'd care to know. My first assumption about this book is that it would be railing on greedy Americans, and in all honesty it sort of did, but it did so in a way that was fair and convincing. It was a far more interesting book than I had thought it would be and the book told many great stories of people who were either helping, being helped or needing help and how geo-politics are impacting the ability to assist starvi
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Sep 12, 2009
This book is a fascinating explanation of third and first-world hunger, agriculture, and food distribution. It examines the subsidies, the laws, the lobbying, the aid, the NGOs, the politics, the drama, the sadness, and the hope. It is well worth a read.
Aug 01, 2011
really good book, has a lot of good information on how humanity has failed and succeeded to help the hungry of the world
Jun 23, 2010
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