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Betting on famine : why the world still goes hungry / Jean Ziegler ; translated from the French by Christopher Caines.
LIBRA HV696.F6 Z5413 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziegler, Jean.
- Standardized Title:
- Destruction massive. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Food relief--Political aspects.
- Food relief.
- Hunger--Political aspects.
- Hunger.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- Massacre
- The geography of hunger
- Invisible hunger
- Protracted crises
- Postscript 1: The Gaza ghetto
- Postscript 2: Refugees from the North Korean famine
- The children of Crateús
- God is not a farmer
- "No one goes hungry in Switzerland"
- The tragedy of Noma
- The awakening of conscience
- Famine and fatalism : Malthus and natural selection
- Josué de Castro, phase one
- Hitler's "hunger plan"
- A light in the darkness : the United Nations
- Josué de Castro, phase two : A very heavy coffin
- Enemies of the right to food
- The crusaders of neoliberalism
- The horsemen of the apocalypse
- When free trade kills
- Savonarola on Lake Geneva
- The collapse of the WFP and the FAO's impotence
- A billionaire's fear
- Victory of the predators
- "Natural" selection redux
- Jalil Jilani and her children
- The defeat of Jacques Diouf
- Postscript: The murder of Iraq's children
- The vultures of "green gold"
- A great lie
- Barack Obama's obsession
- The curse of sugarcane
- Postscript: Hell in Gujarat
- Criminal recolonization
- The speculators
- The "tiger sharks"
- Geneva, world capital of agri-food speculators
- Land grabs and the resistance of the damned
- The complicity of the Western states
- Epilogue
- Notes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781595588494
- 1595588493
- OCLC:
- 778419437
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