Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry
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- ISBN: 9781595588494 (hc. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1595588493 (hc. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781595588616 (e-book)
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xvii, 286 pages ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York : New Press, [2013]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Massacre -- The geography of hunger -- Invisible hunger -- Protracted crises -- Postscript 1: The gaza ghetto -- Postscript 2: Refugees from the North Korean famine -- The children of Crateus -- God is not a farmer -- "No one goes hungry in Switzerland" -- The tragedy of Noma -- The awakening of conscience -- Famine and fatalism : Malthus and natural selection -- Josue de Castro, phase one -- Hitler's "hunger plan" -- A light in the darkness : the United Nations -- Josue de Castro, phase two : A very heavy coffin -- Enemies of the right to food -- The crusaders of neoliberalism -- The horsemen of the apocalypse -- When free trade kills -- Savonarola on Lake Geneva -- The collapse of the WFP and the FAO's impotence -- A billionaire's fear -- Victory of the predators -- "Natural" selection redux -- Jalil Jilani and her children -- The defeat of Jacques Diouf -- Postscript: The murder of Iraq's children -- The vultures of "green gold" -- A great lie -- Barack Obama's obsession -- The curse of sugarcane -- Postscript: Hell in Gujarat -- Criminal recolonization -- The speculators -- The "tiger sharks" -- Geneva, world capital of agri-food speculators -- Land grabs and the resistance of the damned -- The complicity of the western states -- Epilogue -- Notes. |
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Subject: | Food relief Political aspects Hunger Political aspects Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HV 696 .F6 Z54 2013 | 30775305472582 | General Collection | Available | - |
Betting on Famine : Why the World Still Goes Hungry
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Betting on Famine : Why the World Still Goes Hungry
From 2000-2008 Jean Ziegler was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Previously a professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and a Swiss Member of Parliament for eighteen years, Ziegler is the author of numerous books, including The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead which details the role of Swiss banks in illegally holding the dormant bank accounts of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He lives in Switzerland.