Books & Media Reviews
“Poor Relief” a Book by Heath Henderson, Critiques Cash Handouts
June 22, 2026 In his recent book, ...
Study from China: Nutritional Deprivation Early in Life Has Long-term Consequences
June 20, 2026 A new Study in Social Science & Medicine, which tracks over 15,000 Chinese over many years finds that early childhood exposure to famine is associated later in life with poorer cognition, arthritis, rhemitism, job loss and early retirement. The study by Qixin Zhu, E...
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 ...
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 "1...
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 N...
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future
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. He calls this "fanta...
“Essentials of Public Health Communication”: A Valuable Book and 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, ...
Book Classic: The Challenge of Famine, Recent Experience and Lessons Learned by John Osgood Field
The anthology edited by John Osgood Field, The Challenge of Famine, Recent Experience Lessons Learned" remains one of the premier books about predicting and measuring famine ever published. Field, until his retirement a professor of food studies at Tufts University School of Nutrition, p...
Classic Publication from 1995: Bittersweet Harvests, by Ann Thrupp
A classic publication about food insecurity that is still worth a read today to understand how aid has developed in Latin America is "Bittersweet Harvests for Global Supermarkets: Challenges in Latin America's Agricultural Ex...
Articles about Malnutrition Field Programs, “Field Exchange”, October 2025
The Emergency Nutrition Exchange, based out of Dublin, Ireland, has published groundbreaking, field-level technical research about attacking malnutrition for the last few decades. The latest edition, Issue 76 (October 2025) showcases community-led, data-informed, and systems-focused approaches to ...
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