World Hunger: 12 Myths

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The revised and updated edition of the classic on world hunger from Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy.

In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of the foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem.

World Hunger: Twelve Myths

Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset with Luis Esparza

A Grove Press Book

ISBN: 0-8021-3591-9

1998

288 pages, indexed

$13.00 paperback

Drawing on Food First's extensive research, the authors examine head-on the
policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around
the world, in both Third and First World countries, as well as the misconceptions
that have obscured our own national, social, and humanitarian interests. World
Hunger: Twelve Myths shakes many tenaciously held beliefs, but most important,
it convinces readers that by standing together with the hungry we can advance
not only humanitarian interests, but our own well-being.

"World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance
with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense,
and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide
to action."

--Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"A marvelously lucid message: the most important cause of death and disease
is hunger; the remedy is food; the remedy exists. Their message swiftly demolishes
the myths and powerfully arms us for the political task of ending hunger, here
and throughout the world."

--Dr. Barry Commoner

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition

Beyond Guilt and Fear

Chapter 1 Myth 1: There's Simply Not Enough Food

Chapter 2 Myth 2: Nature's to Blame

Chapter 3 Myth 3: Too Many Mouths to Feed

Chapter 4 Myth 4: Food vs. Our Environment

Chapter 5 Myth 5: The Green Revolution Is the Answer

Chapter 6 Myth 6: Justice vs. Production

Chapter 7 Myth 7: The Free Market Can End Hunger

Chapter 8 Myth 8: Free Trade Is the Answer

Chapter 9 Myth 9: Too Hungry to Revolt

Chapter 10 Myth 10: More U.S. Aid Will Help the Hungry

Chapter 11 Myth 11: We Benefit from Their Hunger

with Fuyuki Kurasawa

Chapter 12 Myth 12: Food vs. Freedom

Beyond the Myths of Hunger: What We Can Do

Notes

What We Can Do: A Resource Guide