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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Argues that the solution to world hunger is to grow food first instead of non-edible cash crops for export to the affluent First World. Discusses the political and economic reasons why so many nations devote their land and resources to cultivating export crops while their own people starve. Why American cats and dogs grow fat while Third World children suffer from chronic hunger. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Abstract: Dispelling old myths regarding the root causes of hunger, a prescription for food self-reliance, applicable to developing and industrial countries, is detailed as the only path toward true self-reliance. In question and answer format, commonly accepted obstacles such as insufficient production, inappropriate technology, and discriminatory trade practices in meeting the world's food needs are considered. Hunger is a social problem rather than a technical problem, and calls for America as well as developing countries to explore their values and modes of operation. Putting food first requires that each country meet its own food needs before exports, and requires planning and a struggle against a system that increasingly concentrates wealth and power in a few. No library descriptions found. |
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