Books & Media Reviews
Classic Publication: Bittersweet Harvests, by Ann Thrupp
A classic publication about food insecurity remains "Bittersweet Harvests for Global Supermarkets: Challenges in Latin America's Agricultural Export Boom" from 1995 by Lori Ann Thrupp, Gilles Bergeron, and William F. Waters Published: published by the World Resources Institute in Washington...
New Nutrition Data!: Field Exchange, Malnutrition Field Programs, October 2025
Review by WHES Team: 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-...
A Crucible of Courage: A Review of Ken Isaacs’ “Running to the Fire”
Ken Isaacs spent more than three decades with Samaritan’s Purse, rising to executive vice-president and helping turn Franklin Graham’s organization into one of the largest Christian relief agencies on earth. In Running to the Fire he recounts that journey through a series of crisply tol...
Environmentally-Induced Displacement and Health/Nutrition — a Roundtable Review
A roundtable of two dozen experts, including leaders of key international NGOs, met at George Washington University to examine the global implications of environmentally-induced migration and health, in a context of declining aid. The report, Beyond Emerge...
The End of Hunger — Essays by Leaders
The Anthology, The End of Hunger: Renewed Hope for Feeding the World (2019, Illinois: InterVarsity Press), includes 29 short, readable chapters about the problem of hunger, early childhood nutrition needs, and recommendations for the future, with vignettes included of Nepal, Uganda, ...
The Regenerative Agriculture Solution – a Review
The Regenerative Agriculture Solution by Ronnie Cummins and Andre Leu makes a compelling case for regenerative agriculture as a pathway to improving food production, sequestering carbon, and restoring soil health. The book focuses heavily on the Agave model used in Mexico and other arid reg...
Video Interview about Food Aid with Eline de Looijer
In the new video by WHES, Food aid expert Eline de Looijer explains to Hunger Notes about the basics of international humanitarian food aid. https://www.worldhunger.org/what-is-food-aid/...
Promoting Diagonal Approach for Nutrition
In a new paper by the Center for Global Development (Asti Shafira, Javier Guzman and JM Keller), the problem of siloeing of international support for basic nutrition is critiqued, with recommendations to integrate nutrition in universal health coverage. The authors argue that nutrition is underpr...
Book Review: How to Feed the World, by Vaclav Smil
Vaclav Smil has produced an increasing repertoire of books summarizing how humans consume different resources. Over four decades he has visited many topics including food availability and its constraints. His latest 2025 book, "How to Feed the World: T...
World Expo in Osaka Japan Targets Zero Hunger
An exhibit focusing on world hunger has been on display for the past two weeks, ending today, June 15, 2025, at the World Expo in Japan. World Expo 2025 Osaka Kansai is currently taking place in Japan under the theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives”. The exhibition ...
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