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− | Thomas Keneally, author of [http://www.amazon.com/Three-Famines-Starvation-Politics-ebook/dp/B0055TH54U#reader_B0055TH54U Three Famines:] Starvation and Politics, about the modern history of famines. [http://www.npr.org/2011/10/30/141837920/three-famines-a-struggle-shared-across-the-globe author interview] 10/11 | + | Alan Bjerga's [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118043235.html ''Endless Appetites]: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest'' got glowing reviews from both Press Secretary Sara Sciammacco and Senior Communications and Policy Advisor Don Carr. |
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+ | Thomas Keneally, author of [http://www.amazon.com/Three-Famines-Starvation-Politics-ebook/dp/B0055TH54U#reader_B0055TH54U Three Famines:] Starvation and Politics, about the modern history of famines. [http://www.npr.org/2011/10/30/141837920/three-famines-a-struggle-shared-across-the-globe author interview] 10/11. | ||
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+ | [http://joelberg.net/book/ ''All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?''] | ||
+ | by Joel Berg Seven Stories, 351 pp. | ||
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+ | ''Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities'' | ||
+ | by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters | ||
+ | Chelsea Green, 155 pp. | ||
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''The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society'' | ||
+ | by Janet A. Flammang University of Illinois Press, 325 pp. | ||
+ | NY Review of Books 6/10/10 | ||
In his new book, ''World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse'', [http://www.earth-policy.org/ Earth Policy Institute's] Lester [http://www.earth-policy.org/about_epi/C32 Brown] looks at the state of the world's resources ( a [http://www.earth-policy.org/press_room/C68/pr_wote "food bubble"]), warning that the outlook does not look good when it comes to feeding the world's population. | In his new book, ''World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse'', [http://www.earth-policy.org/ Earth Policy Institute's] Lester [http://www.earth-policy.org/about_epi/C32 Brown] looks at the state of the world's resources ( a [http://www.earth-policy.org/press_room/C68/pr_wote "food bubble"]), warning that the outlook does not look good when it comes to feeding the world's population. | ||
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+ | [http://www.amazon.com/Food-Wars-Walden-Bello/dp/1844673316/ref=wl_mb_hu_m_2_dp#reader_1844673316 The Food Wars] by Walden Bello traces the evolution of the crisis, examining its eruption in Mexico, Africa, the Philippines and China, speaking out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres. | ||
Global food crisis studied by [http://rajpatel.org/meet-raj/ Raj Patel]in [http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/frontpage ''Stuffed and Starved''] [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/8/stuffed_and_starved_as_food_riots video interview] [http://rajpatel.org/category/videos/ and discussed in videos]. [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-14-raj-patel-on-colbert/ Colbert Report]. See also [http://fora.tv/2008/05/16/Raj_Patel_Discusses_Stuffed_and_Starved Extensive talk] (video) based on book. He works with [http://www.foodfirst.org/ Food First]. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OD80V_0ZVI (video)] His newer book The Value of Nothing also has extensive info on food. [http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing Video talk] for example, the [http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing#chapter_03 real cost of a hamburger]. | Global food crisis studied by [http://rajpatel.org/meet-raj/ Raj Patel]in [http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/frontpage ''Stuffed and Starved''] [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/4/8/stuffed_and_starved_as_food_riots video interview] [http://rajpatel.org/category/videos/ and discussed in videos]. [http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-14-raj-patel-on-colbert/ Colbert Report]. See also [http://fora.tv/2008/05/16/Raj_Patel_Discusses_Stuffed_and_Starved Extensive talk] (video) based on book. He works with [http://www.foodfirst.org/ Food First]. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OD80V_0ZVI (video)] His newer book The Value of Nothing also has extensive info on food. [http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing Video talk] for example, the [http://fora.tv/2010/01/06/Raj_Patel_The_Value_of_Nothing#chapter_03 real cost of a hamburger]. | ||
[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/review/Edge-t.html?ex=1374724800&en=da24b08d56bf1b8e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Review of book ''The End of Food''] | [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/review/Edge-t.html?ex=1374724800&en=da24b08d56bf1b8e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink Review of book ''The End of Food''] | ||
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+ | [http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780738215280?&PID=25450 American Wasteland:] How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It) by Jonathan Bloom. | ||
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+ | ''Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply'' by Vandana Shiva McH Stacks HD9000.5 .S454 2000 [http://books.google.com/books?id=6l87AgAACAAJ&dq=Vandana+Shiva&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result Links] | ||
A historical view can be found in [http://books.google.com/books?id=3IrKEzgkQkMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0 ''Late Victorian Holocausts''] ([http://www.amazon.com/Late-Victorian-Holocausts-Famines-Making/dp/1859843824/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2#reader_1859843824 searchable)] By Mike Davis, see also his modern take [http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1844671607/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1#reader_1844671607 City of Slums]. | A historical view can be found in [http://books.google.com/books?id=3IrKEzgkQkMC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0 ''Late Victorian Holocausts''] ([http://www.amazon.com/Late-Victorian-Holocausts-Famines-Making/dp/1859843824/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2#reader_1859843824 searchable)] By Mike Davis, see also his modern take [http://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1844671607/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1#reader_1844671607 City of Slums]. | ||
− | + | [http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520258068 Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations] by David R Montgomery [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv7bFPjpLqg&feature=related (book trailer)] professor of geomorphology, University of Washington discusses the problem of global soil degradation and soil erosion and why it is one of the most significant environmental crises that face our species and planet for the next 400 years to come. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQACN-XiqHU&feature=related another talk]. | |
+ | [http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10599.php Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations] by David R. Montgomery. Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations. UC Press | ||
== Websites == | == Websites == |
Revision as of 16:18, 9 June 2012
Food Scarcity
See also food production and consumption. See also Third World Development (and its associated topics). Genetically Modified Organisms as well as Population. For labor issues, see Labor page.
More than 862 million people in the world go hungry.
In developing countries nearly 16 million children die every year from preventable and treatable causes. Sixty percent of these deaths are from hunger and malnutrition.
In the United States, 11.7 million children live in households where people have to skip meals or eat less to make ends meet. That means one in ten households in the U.S. are living with hunger or are at risk of hunger.
Contents
Articles/Reports
In February, the UN’s food price index rose for the eighth consecutive month, to the highest level since at least 1990. As a result, since 2010 began, roughly another 44 million people have quietly crossed the threshold into malnutrition, joining 925 million already suffering from lack of food. If prices continue to rise, this food crisis will push the ranks of the hungry toward a billion people, with another two billion suffering from “hidden malnutrition” from inadequate diets, nearly all in the developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. That deprivation will shorten lives and stunt young minds, hitting the most vulnerable populations, such as the urban poor of food importing countries, in cities like Cairo, Tunis and Dhaka. “Diet Hard: With A Vengeance,” David Moberg, In These Times, 3/24/11.
Food for 9 Billion from Center for Investigative Research.
Link to Nature article on climate change drought affect on food supply. 5/12
Is Walmart the Answer to "Food Deserts"? 1/12.
Preparing for drought in Sahel, Africa 3/12
Speculators drive price spikes 3/12.
New York Times correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman received a George Polk Award for his coverage of East Africa including Darfur, Congo, and Somalia. He makes the point that famines never happen simply because of drought; there's always another human factor such as war or inequality (Audio interview, some a bit disturbing) 4/12.
Video
TEDtalk video by Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN's World Food Program, who talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation, still use food as a weapon of war.
Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods. TEDtalk video.
Food Stamped2010 documentary in which a couple with kids live on a food stamp budget for a week.
Food Fight! The Battle to Bring Healthy Food to the State's Poorest. Nov 4 2011 Commonwealth Club panel.
The Authors@Google program welcomed the Wall St Journal's Scott Kilman and Roger Thurow to Google's New York office to discuss their book, "Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty" Link.
Audio
Food Deserts: A Mirage or Reality? 5/12
Books
Alan Bjerga's Endless Appetites: How the Commodities Casino Creates Hunger and Unrest got glowing reviews from both Press Secretary Sara Sciammacco and Senior Communications and Policy Advisor Don Carr.
Thomas Keneally, author of Three Famines: Starvation and Politics, about the modern history of famines. author interview 10/11.
All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? by Joel Berg Seven Stories, 351 pp.
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities by Carlo Petrini, with a foreword by Alice Waters Chelsea Green, 155 pp.
The Taste for Civilization: Food, Politics, and Civil Society by Janet A. Flammang University of Illinois Press, 325 pp. NY Review of Books 6/10/10
In his new book, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown looks at the state of the world's resources ( a "food bubble"), warning that the outlook does not look good when it comes to feeding the world's population.
The Food Wars by Walden Bello traces the evolution of the crisis, examining its eruption in Mexico, Africa, the Philippines and China, speaking out against the obscene imbalance in the most basic commodities between northern and southern hemispheres.
Global food crisis studied by Raj Patelin Stuffed and Starved video interview and discussed in videos. Colbert Report. See also Extensive talk (video) based on book. He works with Food First. 2010 Panel with Anna Lappe (video) His newer book The Value of Nothing also has extensive info on food. Video talk for example, the real cost of a hamburger.
Review of book The End of Food
American Wasteland: How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its Food (and What We Can Do about It) by Jonathan Bloom.
Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply by Vandana Shiva McH Stacks HD9000.5 .S454 2000 Links
A historical view can be found in Late Victorian Holocausts (searchable) By Mike Davis, see also his modern take City of Slums.
Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R Montgomery (book trailer) professor of geomorphology, University of Washington discusses the problem of global soil degradation and soil erosion and why it is one of the most significant environmental crises that face our species and planet for the next 400 years to come. another talk. Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David R. Montgomery. Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations. UC Press
Websites
Ironically/tragically, today in US kids of migrant laborers are going hungry (audio). (December 10, 2009) Nearly a million migrant children crisscross the U.S. with their families, from harvest to harvest and from job to job. In North Carolina, migrant families struggle to find work, and many rely on schools for food and clothing. The people who run the state's migrant program say living conditions and financial hardships for laborers are the worst in memory.
More info from Bread for the World.org
A Seat at the Table is a game/simulation from Oxfam.
We can feed 10 billion, but we have to change. 10/11
Maps
A tool that maps and grades "food deserts" to lure supermarkets. USDA version.
Food Insecurity (hunger) in US by state/county.
World food map from CIR.