| The books included here are suggested to give a broad and diverse perspective on the issues related to world hunger. The opinions included are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the producers of SILENT KILLER. |
| IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY AUTHOR: |
FOOD AID AFTER FIFTY YEARS
RECASTING ITS ROLE
Barrett, Christopher, and
Daniel Maxwell. Routledge, 2005. |
| This book explores the
motivations and modalities of food aid and
examines issues which impinge on its
effectiveness.
Food Aid After Fifty Years provides a clear,
comprehensive, and current explanation of a
wide range of issues surrounding food aid
policy and operations and will prove vital to
students of development studies, international
agriculture and those working in the field. One of the authors, Chris Barrett is featured in the SILENT KILLER film.
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REDUCING POVERTY AND SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT: THE POLITICS OF LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
Bass, Stephen, Hannah Reid, David Satterthwaite, and Paul Steele. Earthscan Publications, 2005.
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| This book examines the role of politics in environmental issues that matter to the poor. It offers various case studies from China, India, Pakistan, Colombia, Peru, East and South Africa and the Caribbean. It demonstrates how working within the national and local political context is crucial for addressing poverty-environment issues. |
GRACE AT THE TABLE: ENDING HUNGER IN GOD’S WORLD
Beckmann, David, and Arthur Simon. Paulist Press, 1999. |
| Bread for the World's founding president, Arthur Simon, and current president David Beckmann (featured in SILENT KILLER film) explore the causes and cures of hunger. This book shows how issues such as population, resources, economics, and human rights are interwoven in their impact on hunger. |
THE PARADOX OF PLENTY: HUNGER IN A BOUNTIFUL WORLD
Boucher, Douglas M. Food First/Institute For Food and Development Policy, 1998. |
| Gathers together excerpts from twenty-seven of Food First’s best writings to provide an integrated overview of the world food system, how global politics affect hungry people, and the impact of the free market. |
ARE WE ON TRACK TO END HUNGER?: HUNGER REPORT 2004, 14TH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE OF WORLD HUNGER
Bread for the World. Bread for the World, 2004. |
| Hunger 2004 finds that the world community essentially knows what to do to end hunger, but knowing what needs to be done is different from doing it. |
THE DOUBLY GREEN REVOLUTION: FOOD FOR ALL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Conway, Gordon. Cornell University Press, 1999. |
| Today more than three quarters of a billion people go hungry in a world where food is plentiful. Conway, former president of the Rockefeller Foundation, sets out an agenda for addressing this situation. The original Green Revolution produced new technologies for farmers, creating food abundance. A second transformation of agriculture is now required, a "doubly green revolution" that stresses conservation as well as productivity. |
SECURING THE HARVEST: BIOTECHNOLOGY, BREEDING AND SEED SYSTEMS FOR AFRICAN CROPS
Devries, Joseph, and Gary H. Toenniessen. CABI Publishing, 2002. |
| Biotechnology approaches to food and crop improvement in sub-Saharan Africa need to take into account local requirements. The authors provide a critical assessment of the ways in which recent breakthroughs in biotechnology, participatory plant breeding, and seed systems can be broadly employed in developing and delivering more productive crop varieties in Africa's diverse agricultural environments. |
GLOBALIZATION AND EQUITY: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE DEVELOPING WORLD
Dinello, Natalia, and Lyn Squire (eds.). Global Development Conference 2003 Cairo, 2005. |
| This book analyzes the links between globalization and equity from the perspective of seven regions: the Commonwealth of Independent States, East Asia and South Asia, Eastern and Central Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub Saharan Africa. It presents the views of researchers from the developing world, and provides models of successful research conducted in developing and transition countries. |
HUNGER AND PUBLIC ACTION
Dreze, Jean, and Amartya K. Sen. Oxford University Press, 1995. |
| Examining the problem of hunger in the modern world and the role public opinion might play in combating it, Dreze and Sen provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, economic, social, and political issues involved in the analysis of hunger. They explore famine prevention through a series of case studies in Africa and elsewhere, and discuss the problem of chronic undernourishment. |
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: ESSAYS BY AMARTYA SEN, MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM, FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON, WILLIAM J. WILSON, DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, AND MARTHA A. FINEMAN
Grusky, David B., and Ravi Kanbur (eds.). Stanford University Press, 2005. |
| This volume brings together leading public intellectuals, to take stock of current analytic understandings of poverty and inequality. The contributors show how contemporary poverty is forged in neighborhoods, argue that discrimination in housing markets is a profound source of poverty, suggest that gender inequalities in the family and in the social evaluation of the caretaking role remain a hidden dimension of inequality, and develop the argument that contemporary inequality is best understood as an inequality in fundamental human capabilities. |
WORLD POVERTY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEXES
Lane, Marie V.. Nova Science Publishers, 2002. |
| A useful tool for people who want to keep up with poverty situations around the world. This book gathers primarily the literature (although there is some periodical coverage) on world poverty providing access through author, title and subject indexes. |
WORLD HUNGER: TWELVE MYTHS
Lappe, Frances Moore, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset. Institute for Food and Development Policy, Grove Press, 1998. |
| The authors challenge what they consider to be the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem of world hunger. They examine head-on the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, as well as misconceptions that have obscured our own national, social, and humanitarian interests. |
DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET
Lappe, Frances Moore. Ballantine Books, 1985. |
| Bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating- one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the 90s. |
HOPE'S EDGE: THE NEXT DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET
Lappe, Frances Moore, and Anna Lappe. Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2003. |
| Follows the author of the classic "Diet for a Small Planet" and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger. In the making of SILENT KILLER, we learned about the stories of Adriana Aranha and the MST in Brazil from this book, and from conversations with the Lappes. We thank them for the inspiration! |
HIGH TECH HARVEST: UNDERSTANDING GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD PLANTS
Lurquin, Paul F. Westview Press, 2002. |
| Paul Lurquin provides a comprehensive description of the scientific origins, the development, and the applications of genetically modified plants throughout the world today. |
SCALING DOWN: OVERCOMING MALNUTRITION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Marchione, Thomas J. Gordon and Breach, 1999. |
| The individual and institutional capacities required for the prevention and reduction of nutritional insecurity and hunger in lesser-developed countries as the twenty-first century approaches are identified in this book. The essays in this book champion the idea of increasing, or scaling up, grass roots operations to provide nutritional security, while scaling down the efforts of national and international institutions. |
RIO PLUS TEN: POLITICS, POVERTY AD THE ENVIRONMENT
Middleton, Neil, and Phil O'Keefe. PLUTO PRESS, 2003. |
| Middleton and O'Keefe proclaim that poverty and the environment are inseparable. They say that mainly environmental agendas ignore the needs of the poor. In that context, they trace the efforts that led to the UN conferences on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro 1992, and Johannesburg, 2002. They cover the events in the intervening years and examine what progress has been made. |
WORLDS APART: MEASURING INTERNATIONAL AND GLOBAL INEQUALITY
Milanovic, Branko. Princeton University Press, 2005. |
| Addresses how to measure global inequality, explains the main approaches to the problem, and discusses the relevant policies of first-world countries and nongovernmental organizations. |
SEEDS OF CONTENTION: WORLD HUNGER AND THE GLOBAL CONTROVERSY OVER GM (GENETICALLY MODIFIED) CROPS
Pinstrup-Andersen, Per, and Ebbe Schioler. International Food Policy Research Institute, 2001. |
| Pinstrup-Andersen (featured in SILENT KILLER) and Schioler review the issues of the potential benefits and costs of GM for developing countries, and they discuss the potential that GM crops have for addressing the great needs of poor and undernourished peoples throughout the world. |
WORLD POVERTY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: COSMOPOLITAN RESPONSIBILITIES AND REFORMS
Pogge, Thomas. Polity press, 2002. |
| Pogge points to the dire problems the world is experiencing in terms of hunger and poverty, providing illustrative examples, facts and figures, but also demonstrates our ability to put a stop to it, not with advances that would take years to develop, but with resources available to us now. |
GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS: DEBATING BIOTECHNOLOGY (CONTEMPORARY ISSUE SERIES)
Ruse, Michael, and David Castle (eds.). Prometheus Books, 2002. |
| This book presents 35 articles by experts in the fields of bioscience, law, religion, public policy, and international relations on the subject of genetically modified foods. |
HALVING HUNGER: IT CAN BE DONE (UN MILLENIUM PROJECT)
Sachs, Jeffrey D., Pedro Sanchez, M.S. Swaminathan, Philip Dobie, and Nalan Yuksel (eds.), 2005. |
| This publication comprises the official UN strategy on how to reduce extreme poverty and achieve the fundamental worldwide human development goals for the coming decade. |
THE END OF POVERTY: ECONOMIC POSSIBILITIES FOR OUR TIME
Sachs, Jeffrey D. Penguin Group, 2005. |
| Combining his practical experience and professional analysis, Sachs offers a big-picture vision of the keys to economic success in the world today and the steps that are necessary to achieve prosperity for all. |
POVERTY AND FAMINES: AN ESSAY ON ENTITLEMENT AND DEPRIVATION
Sen, Amartya. Oxford University Press, 1984. |
| The main focus of this book is the causes of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops an alternative method of analysis--the 'entitlement approach'--concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. |
ENDING HUNGER IN OUR LIFETIME: FOOD SECURITY AND GLOBALIZATION
Senauer, Benjamin, Philip G. Pardey, Mark W. Rosegrant, C. Ford Runge (ed.). International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003. |
| The authors of this book write that hunger can be banished in our lifetime. They first distill what is already known abut fighting hunger and then report on important new research findings and projections that show it can be done, through new and renewed institutions, scientific innovation, global economics and investment, and sustainable environmental practices. |
STOLEN HARVEST: THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY
Shiva, Vandana. South End Press, 1999. |
| Vandana Shiva, a prominent critic of the Green Revolution and biotechnology, challenges the impacts of industrial agriculture and what they mean for small farmers, the environment, and the quality and healthfulness of the foods we eat. |
MONOCULTURES OF THE MIND: PERSPECTIVES ON BIODIVERSITY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Shiva. Vandana. Zed Books, 1993. |
| Shiva explores the impact of biotechnology on the so-called developing countries, on their food production, their environment, and the disappearing biodiversity of their traditional foods crops. |
GENE TRADERS: BIOTECHNOLOGY, WORLD TRADE, AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF HUNGER
Tokar, Brian. Toward Freedom, 2004. |
| In this broad and comprehensive survey, seven authors argue that the interplay of trade policy, "development" politics and biotechnology, increases dependency and hunger, while compromising the survival of traditional farmers and their communities. |
NEGOTIATING POVERTY: NEW DIRECTIONS, RENEWED DEBATE
Visser, Rob, Neil Middleton (ed), and Phil O'Keefe (ed). PLUTO PRESS, 2001. |
| The debate over how to tackle global poverty is fierce. On the one hand there are those, like the World Bank and the IMF, who assume that poverty is best alleviated by incorporating the poor into the globalized market. On the other hand, there are the development experts, activists and academics, who argue that the global market itself is the cause of continued poverty ad suffering. Negotiating Poverty tells their side of the story, grounded in a critical examination of the "guidelines of poverty reduction". |
FAMINE IN AFRICA: CAUSES, RESPONSES AND PREVENTION
Von Braun, Joachim, Tesfaye Teklu, Patrick Webb, International Food Policy Research Institute. International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999. |
| The authors present the results of field work and other research from numerous parts of Africa, with a particular focus on Botswana, Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. With these data, the authors explain the factors that cause famines and assess efforts to mitigate and prevent them. |
WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT: 2004: MAKING SERVICES WORK FOR POOR PEOPLE
World Bank. World Bank Office, 2003. |
| The World Development Report investigates how countries can accelerate progress towards the millennium Development Goals (MDG's) by making services work for poor people. |
STATE OF THE WORLD 2004: GLOBAL SECURITY
Worldwatch Institute. W.W.Norton & Company, 2005. |
| In State of the World 2004, the Worldwatch Institute focuses on consumption, pointing to the many ways in which our consumption habits drive ecological and social deterioration, as well as how these habits can be redirected to reinforce environmental and social goals. |
STATE OF THE WORLD 2005: GLOBAL SECURITY
Worldwatch Institute. W.W.Norton & Company, 2005. |
| "Security" concerns are only in part about violent conflict, a worst-case outcome that results from a broad range of underlying vulnerabilities. Worldwatch offers a broader perspective on these issues by reaffirming the importance of other, less-publicized threats to global stability and security: the complex interactions between environmental degradation, poverty, and inequity; growing human populations; and the international proliferation of deadly weapons. |
WORLD HUNGER
Young, Liz. Routledge, 1997. |
| Young explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agriculture production increase and genetic engineering revolutionizes food production and distribution. She provides numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South. |
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