World Hunger

Frances Moore Lappé, author of the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet and seventeen other books, is a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, the “Alternative Nobel.”Joseph Collins, PhD, has been researching and writing about issues in international development for five decades. He is a consultant to UN agencies and international charities.

One of Food Tank's favorite books of the year "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 "Like its predecessors, this brilliant book distills the truth about the state of global hunger so accessibly and urgently, that you're left not just wiser, but armed and ready for the fight to make the world better."--Raj Patel, author Stuffed and Starved; fellow at Food First; research professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin "A must-read from the world's most trustworthy guides to how we can end hunger. With great clarity, Lappe and Collins not only discredit widespread misconceptions but provide persuasive evidence of what's needed to meet the challenge."--Hilal Elver, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food "Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappe and [Joseph Collins] demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that keep people from feeding themselves ... Ultimately, the book's strength is in the clarity of its message. World Hunger is concise, straightforward, hard-hitting ... Lappe and her co-authors don't just bust long-standing myths and preempt counter-arguments with an armory of research, they build enough nuance into their narrative to provoke you into questioning your own personal beliefs about hunger. And then they tell you what you can do about it. When it comes down to it, that is where its power lies: World Hunger is a manifesto for change, and its call to action has never been more urgent."-Policy Innovations "The definitive solutions-based book for all those questioning why hunger still exists when there is such an abundance of food. The book takes on difficult issues such as climate change and world population growth, drawing on years of extensive research to create attainable solutions."--Huffington Post, "Food Tank's 2015 Recommended Fall Reading List"