Betting on Famine: Why the World Still Goes Hungry

by Jean Ziegler

Book Overview

"The seminal book on global poverty and hunger . . . How rapacious speculators and complicit bureaucrats are starving a billion people" (Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch and author of Foodopoly).

Few people know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595588493
• ISBN13: 9781595588494
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"