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Contents
Preface
I. The Slow and Silent Killer: What Causes Famine?
Editor’s Introduction
1) Starved for Attention. Susan Sechler. The American Prospect
2) How the World Is Getting Hungrier Each Year. Paul Vallely. The
Independent (London)
3) From Credit to Crops. Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen. Finance &
Development
4) Africa Needs Democracy as Much as Debt Relief. Steve Karlen. The
Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin)
5) Why Democracies Don’t Have Famines. Miren Gutierrez. Inter Press
Service
6) Freedom Is Not Enough. Joshua Hammer. Newsweek
II. Famines in the World Today
Editor’s Introduction
1) Millions in Niger Facing Food Shortages Once Again. Samuel Loewenberg.
The Lancet
2) Season of Many Hungers. The Nation
3) Who Caused the Malawi Famine? Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng’ambi. African
Business
4) Letter from Zimbabwe. Gabrielle Menezes. The Nation
5) Glimpses of a Hermit Nation: Trading Ideals for Sustenance. Barbara
Demick. Los Angeles Times
III. Relief Efforts: Aid Versus Development
Editor’s Introduction
1) Fighting World Hunger: U.S. Food Aid Policy and the Food for Peace
Program. Ryan Swanson. AgExporter
2) Food Sovereignty: Ending World Hunger in Our Time. Frederic Mousseau
and Anuradha Mittal. The Humanist
3) Starving for the Cameras. Economist
4) Vast Lands, Epic Journeys, Terrible Sights James R. Peipert. Fort
Worth Star-Telegram
5) The Problem with Predicting Famine. Miren Gutierrez. Inter Press
Service
IV. Women and Children: Greatest Victims, Greatest
Hope
Editor’s Introduction
1) Do-It-Yourself Famine Fight. Kirsten Scharnberg. Chicago Tribune
2) Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future. Michael
Wines. The New York Times
3) Famine in East Africa: Littlest Victims of Drought, Poverty. Anna
Badkhen. The San Francisco Chronicle
4) Hunger Stalks Niger. Kirsten Scharnberg. Chicago Tribune
5) The Opposite of Obesity: Undernutrition Overwhelms the World’s
Children. Carol Potera. Environmental Health Perspectives
V. Promising Solution or Risky Experiment? The
Biotechnology Debate
Editor’s Introduction
1) So Shall We Reap. From Food, Inc. Peter Pringle. Simon &
Schuster
2) Debate Grows Over Biotech Food. Justin Gillis. The Washington Post
3) Genetic Engineering Is Not the Answer. Sean McDonagh. America
4) Feed Starving Masses, Not Irrational Fears. USA Today
VI. Food Stamps and Farm Subsidies: Hunger in America
Editor’s Introduction
1) Hungry in America. Trudy Lieberman. The Nation
2) America’s Hunger Epidemic. Anna Quindlen. Newsweek
3) Cost of Hunger Calculated at $90 Billion. Cheryl Wetzstein. The
Washington Times
4) No Longer Hungry, Just Folks of “Low Food Security.” Marie Cocco.
The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
5) Lawmaker Cuts Budget to $3 a Day. Bella English. The Boston Globe
Appendix
United Nations Millennium Declaration. United Nations General Assembly
Bibliography
Books
Web Sites
Additional Periodical Articles with Abstracts
Index
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