Enough : Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

by Thurow, Roger

• ISBN13: 9781586485115
• ISBN10: 1586485113
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-22
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the "Green Revolution" succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every yearmost of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse.In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading,Enoughis essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

Author Biography

Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years, and has reported from more than sixty countries, including two dozen in Africa. Scott Kilman has been the Journal's leading agriculture reporter. Thurow and Kilman have teamed up to produce a stream of page-one stories in the Journal that have broken new ground in our understanding of famine and food aid. Their stories on three 2003 famines were a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
The Unfinished Revolution
Seeds of Change	p. 3
Mexico, 1944
Flow and Ebb	p. 17
Oslo, Norway, 1970
Into Africa	p. 35
Northern Ethiopia, 1984
Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander	p. 53
Fana, Mali, 2002
Glut and Punishment	p. 71
Adami Tulu, Ethiopia, 2003
Who's Aiding Whom?	p. 85
Nazareth, Ethiopia, 2003
Water, Water Everywhere	p. 99
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2003
A Diet of Worms	p. 113
Sudan, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, 2003
Enough is Enough
Resorting to Outrage	p. 129
"We Can Do Something About This"	p. 137
Dublin and Seattle
Take with Food	p. 157
Mosoriot, Kenya
Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back	p. 165
Around the World
The Missing Links	p. 189
Kenya and Ghana
The Opening Bell	p. 207
Chicago to Addis Ababa to Qacha's Nek
Getting Down to Business	p. 225
Davos to Darfur
Small Acts, Big Impacts	p. 243
Kenya, Ohio, and Malawi
"We Must Not Fail Them"	p. 259
Washington, D.C.
Epilogue: Hagirso	p. 277
Acknowledgments	p. 285
Notes	p. 287
Index	p. 293
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