12 Myths About Hunger

For an updated version of this backgrounder go to http://www.foodfirst.org/12myths

Why so much hunger?

What can we do about it?

To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.

Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.






Myth 1

Not Enough Food to Go Around

12 Myths About Hunger

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12 Myths about Hunger

Updated by Holly Poole-Kavana based on the book World Hunger: Twelve Myths

Why so much hunger?

What can we do about it?


To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of ­widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.

Myth 1:

Not Enough Food to Go Around

Anatomy of a 'Gene Spill'

Anatomy of a 'Gene Spill': Do We Really Need Genetically Engineered Food?

By Peter Rosset

Peter Rosset has a Ph.D. in agricultural ecology and is co-director of Food First.

Also available in PDF format.


Asian Financial Crisis: The Movie

By Walden Bello

Banana War in the Philippines






By David BaconFor the past several months, the banana groves on four Philippine
plantations have been uncharacteristically silent. In place of the
normal cacophony of harvesters cutting huge banana bunches, men and
women sit quietly all day in dusty tents beside the plantation roads.

Beyond the Food Bank

As food insecurity has increased in the United States the demand for food banks, pantries, and shelters has also developed and expanded. Although food banks are a vital emergency and safety net that keeps the hunger crisis at bay by providing food to people who would otherwise go hungry, they cannot address the root causes that perpetuate and exacerbate hunger in America today. Instead, our growing reliance on food banks may distract us from finding lasting solutions to the hunger crisis.

Biofuels: Myths of the Agro-fuels Transition

by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D., Executive Director,
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

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Breaking Ground: The Community Food Security Movement

Also available in PDF format (960 kb).

Christine Ahn*



China and Industrial Animal Agriculture: Prospects and Defects

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This backgrounder is based on a longer report by Mia MacDonald and Sangamithra Lyer published by Brighter Green.
Read that report here:
http://brightergreen.org/files/brightergreen_china_print.pdf

Colombia palm oil biodiesel plantations: A "lose-lose" development strategy?

“We think biofuels can further our core mission, which is to bring economic opportunity and a better quality of life to the region’s low-income majority.”
--Luis Alberto Moreno, President Inter-American Development Bank