Books & Media Reviews
2026 State of Food Insecurity & Nutrition in the World
August 19, 2026 Global malnutrition has declined according to the new 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report (jointly by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO; focus: “Understanding and addressing the high cost of a healthy diet”). SOFI has become an annua...
How the Other Half Dies, Book Classic
Aug 18, 2026 A key author about world hunger, Susan George, passed away earlier this year, having fought extensively against world hunger and calling for radical global economic reform. Born in Ohio she moved to France and wrote often about the UK. All of her writing expanded on he...
Book Review: “Food Fight” by Stuart Gillespie
August 14, 2026 Agribusiness is out of control, according to "From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet", Stuart Gillespie's 2025 book, "Food Fight" which argues for a new, common vision of human and planetary health in where power over food systems is better balanced. He writes buildi...
Book Review: Kiss the Ground by Josh Tickell
July 6, 2026 By Jim Phillips Published in 2017, Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World, presents a compelling case for transforming modern agriculture by focusing on building healthy, productive soils through regenerative ...
“Poor Relief” a Book by Heath Henderson, Critiques Cash Handouts
June 22, 2026 In his recent book, Poor Relief: Why Giving People Money Is Not the Answer to Global Poverty (Harvard University Press, 2025), author Heath Henderson challenges assumptions about the sustainability and effectiveness of cash transfers to remedy poverty. During the last 20 years, a...
Book Review: The End of Violence
June 6, 2026. Dr. Gary Slutkin, in his new book The End of Violence (published April 21, 2026), explains his early career experience working with the Somali Refugee Health Unit, helping malnourished refugees in East Africa, which inspired him in time to apply the skills he learned to take o...
Action Against Hunger 10 Global Hunger Hot Spots
May 6, 2026 This year, as in the past, the international aid agency "Action Against Hunger" (also known as ACF, or Action Contre la Faim) released their annual hunger report, titled "10 Global Hunger Hot Spots." This year the report describes a compound crisis model as causing hunger. The c...
Review of “Channeling Cassandra”
Dennis King's new monograph, Channeling Cassandra, draws on his over 35 years of experience managing information about international humanitarian disasters, including his creation of ReliefWeb.com and overseeing USAID and US Department of State humanitarian information systems. Published by the Nati...
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future
February 5, 2026 As people get wealthier, historically, they eat more meat even though it is inefficient. the new book, "Meat" by Bruce Friedrich, examines the implications of the world's dietary choice. He lays out how six calories going into a chicken result in 1 calorie in chicken meat. ...
“Essentials of Public Health Communication”: Valuable Curricula
February 22, 2026 A round the world, a key shift during the past few decades in combatting malnutrition has been the adoption of social marketing, communications and "behavior change" to improve diets, caretaker behavior, and recognition of failures in child growth. The technical book, "Ess...
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