Betting on famine: why the world still goes hungry 9781595588616, 1595588612
"Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widesprea
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English Pages xvii, 286 pages Year 2013
Table of contents :
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.
