The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Simon & Schuster, 2015
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- Título
- The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
- Autor
- Rieff, David
- Editorial
- Simon & Schuster
- Año de publicación
- 2015
- Estado
- Good
- Sobrecubierta
- Sobrecubierta Incluida
- Encuadernación
- hardcover
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 143912387X
- ISBN 13
- 9781439123874
Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today) in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most brilliant scientists, world politicians, and aid and development persons forecast an end to the crisis of massive malnutrition in the next decades.
However, food rights campaigners (many associated with green parties in both the rich and poor world) and traditional farming advocates reject the intervention of technology, biotech solutions, and agribusiness. Many economists predict that with the right policies, poverty in Africa can end in twenty years. “Philanthrocapitalists” Bill Gates and Warren Buffett spend billions on technology to “solve” the problem, relying on technology.
Rieff, who has been studying and reporting on humanitarian aid and development for thirty years, puts the claims of both sides under a microscope and asks if any one of these efforts will solve the crisis. He cites climate change, unstable governments that receive aid, the cozy relationship between the philanthropic sector and agricultural giants like Monsanto and Syngenta, that are often glossed over.
The Reproach of Hunger is the only book to look at this debate refusing to take the cherished claims of either side at face value. Rieff answers a careful “yes” to this crucial challenge to humanity’s future. The answer to the central question is yes, if we don’t confuse our hopes with realities and good intensions with capacities.
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A withering, thought-provoking study. " The Wall Street Journal "
Hardheaded, sophisticated, and urgent. " The New York Times Book Review
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Praise for "Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West"
Rieff writes with a knowledge so thorough, an intelligence so keen, a passion so scalding, and a morality so vigorous, that one cannot come away from reading this without despair for mankind. "The Advocate"
It is David Rieff s shocking conclusion . . . that we have reached the point where to bear witness is the remaining alternative to losing hope in the face of unchecked crimes against humanity. "The Baltimore Sun
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Praise for "At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention"
Rieff's lucid, fair-minded, and provocative essays should be mandatory reading for anybody who is trying to make sense out of our ever-more-troubling, post-September 11 world. " San Francisco Chronicle"
Rejecting equally utopian humanitarianism and neoconservative ideology, Rieff's collection of essays provides a compelling analysis of when military intervention is necessary and when it is doomed to fail. " George Soros"--* * *"
[Rieff s] unflinching analysis is an invaluable corrective to the happy-clappy unreality of much of our current thinking on hunger. A forceful critique of the ideology that has captured many transnational institutions in recent decades, "The Reproach of Hunger" is a substantial work of political thought. --John Gray "NewStatesman ""
"[Rieff's] unflinching analysis is an invaluable corrective to the happy-clappy unreality of much of our current thinking on hunger. A forceful critique of the ideology that has captured many transnational institutions in recent decades, The Reproach of Hunger is a substantial work of political thought."--John Gray "NewStatesman "
Praise for A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis "A withering, thought-provoking study."--The Wall Street Journal "Hardheaded, sophisticated, and urgent."--The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West "Rieff writes with a knowledge so thorough, an intelligence so keen, a passion so scalding, and a morality so vigorous, that one cannot come away from reading this without despair for mankind."--The Advocate "It is David Rieff's shocking conclusion . . . that we have reached the point where to bear witness is the remaining alternative to losing hope in the face of unchecked crimes against humanity."--The Baltimore Sun
Praise for At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention "Rieff's lucid, fair-minded, and provocative essays should be mandatory reading for anybody who is trying to make sense out of our ever-more-troubling, post-September 11 world."--San Francisco Chronicle "Rejecting equally utopian humanitarianism and neoconservative ideology, Rieff's collection of essays provides a compelling analysis of when military intervention is necessary and when it is doomed to fail."--George Soros--* * *
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