World Hunger: Twelve Myths

From the publisher:

The completely revised Second Edition includes:

Substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War
Global food production vs. population growth
Changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world
The shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order
Structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies
Trade liberalization and free trade agreements
Famine and humanitarian interventions
The Third Worldization of First World nations

In this edition of the most authoritative book on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose and explode the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First), Lapp, Collins, and Rosset examine head-on the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries, as well as the misconceptions that have obscured our own national, social, and humanitarian interests. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, World Hunger: Twelve Myths shakes many tenaciously held beliefs; but most important, it convinces readers that by standing together with the hungry we can advance not only humanitarian interests, but our own well-being.

"World Hunger addresses problems of enormous human significance with valuable and often surprising information, much insight, sound common sense, and fundamental decency. It should become not only a book for study, but a guide to action." -- Noam Chomsky