Books & Media Reviews
Famine Modelling: 12 Articles in Journal of Public Health Policy
September 24, 2026. The August 2026 special edition of the Journal of Public Health Policy (Spring publisher) challenges many old views of famine. In an era characterized by real-time satellite imagery, global supply chain logistics, and predictive artificial intelligence, humanity faces an u...
Disasters and Malnutrition: a Global Study
September 8, 2026 A global study published this week finds that natural disasters in lower-income countries increase child malnutrition. Publishing in Pediatric Research, the authors, Adriano La Vecchia, Eleonora Borrione, Benedetta Esposito, Mattia Baglioni, Carlo Agostoni, Cristiana Berti &a...
Remembering Shlomo Reutlinger, Global Hunger Expert
Sept 6, 2026 "Build roads" to combat hunger was (Fritz) Shlomo Reutlinger's simple, final advice, when he was speaking to a roomful of food experts in Virginia as he retired from a long career at the World Bank to move to Israel, where he then lived until his passing in 2019 at the age of 93....
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...
U.S. Food Aid (Part 3): Lessons from Tufts University’s “Food Aid Quality Review”,
July 17, 2026 This is the third in a series of briefs about U.S. Food Aid, recognizing the shift of programming to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Every year, for over a half century, the United States has shipped more than a million tons of food to hungry people in dozens of countries. Du...
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...
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