World Hunger

by Hunnicutt, Susan C.

• ISBN13: 9780737727623
• ISBN10: 0737727624
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-17
• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr

Summary

Provides a number of different contemporary perspectives on the reasons for world hunger. It also examines ways in which the problem may or may not finally be solved.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(71)
1. World Hunger Is a Worsening Problem	10	(4)
UN Chronicle
2. Increasing Crop Yields Will Reduce World Hunger	14	(8)
Mark W. Rosegrant and Sarah A. Cline
3. Free-Trade Policies Can Reduce World Hunger	22	(9)
John Nash and Donald Mitchell
4. Free Trade Has Failed to Reduce World Hunger	31	(7)
Peter O'Driscoll
5. A History of U.S. Food Aid	38	(10)
Ryan Swanson
6. Food Aid Is Failing to Address the Problem of World Hunger	48	(10)
Shahla Shapouri and Stacey Rosen
7. Genetic Engineering Can Help Solve the Problem of World Hunger	58	(6)
Jorge E. Mayer, Peter Beyer, and Ingo Potrykus
8. Genetic Engineering Is Not a Solution to the Problem of World Hunger	64	(7)
Greenpeace
9. Hunger Should Be Fought at the Local Level	71	(7)
Christine Ahn
10. Women Are Key to Solving the Hunger Problem	78	(4)
Katharine Coon
11. Small Farms Are Key to Solving the Hunger Problem	82	(9)
Julie Mardin
Organizations to Contact	91	(5)
Bibliography	96	(7)
Index	103