Books & Media Reviews

Scaling Up, Scaling Down: Overcoming Malnutrition in Developing Countries

Thomas J. Marchione, Editor Gordon and Breach. 1999. Hardcover, paperback. ISBN: 9057005476 Reviewed by Steve Hansch This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Many non-governmental organization (NGO) projects are first established as "pilot" efforts in order to test and learn ...

Reviewed By: Steve Hansch

World Hunger: 12 Myths

by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and Peter Rosset with Luis Esparza 2nd edition, 1998. New York: Grove Press. pp. 270. ISBN 0-8021-3591-9 Reviewed by Leo Vox This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. At a time of unprecedented wealth, when almost one-half of all America...

Reviewed By: Leo Vox

Famine in Africa: Causes, Responses, and Prevention

By Joachim von Braun, Tesfaye Teklu, and Patrick Webb Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1998 International Food Policy Research Institute Washington D.C. Hardback, 1999. ISBN: 0801861217. Reviewed by Tom Marchione This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes'bookstore. Th...

Reviewed By: Tom Marchione

Contested Frontiers in Amazonia

by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood New York: Columbia University Press. 1992. 387 pp. ISBN: 0231076606 Reviewed by Keith Forbes This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. This book deals with the colonization of the southern part of the state of Pará, Brazil in the Amazon...

Reviewed By: Keith Forbes

Grace at the Table: Ending Hunger in God’s World

By David Beckmann and Arthur Simon Paulist Press, 997 Macarthur Boulevard, Mahwah, New Jersey, 07430. 1999. Paperback. 219 pp. ISBN: 0-8091-3866-2. Reviewed by Berard L. Marthaler This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. This work belongs to the genre of literature classified...

Reviewed By: Berard L. Marthaler

The Globalization of Poverty

By Michel Chossudovsky Zed Books Ltd. London and New Jersey. 1997. Paperback. 288 pp. ISBN: 1856494020. Reviewed by Leo Vox This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. In countries as diverse as Russia, India, and Rwanda, Michel Chossudovsky's The Globalization of Poverty takes ...

Reviewed By: Leo Vox

Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement

by Janet Poppendieck New York: Penguin Putnam Books. 1999. Hardcover. 354 pp. ISBN 0670880205. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Many anti-hunger food programs in the United States have been driven by supply considerations, principally the need to dispose of U.S. food ...

Changing Politics of Hunger: 1999

by James V. Riker Bread for the World Institute, Silver Spring, MD. 1998. Paperback. 138 pp. ISBN: 1884361072. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Bread for the World's new report on hunger-- celebrating BFW's 25th anniversary-- stakes the claim that we know how to elimi...

Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda

by Peter Uvin Kumarian Press, West Hartford, CT. 1998. 288 pp. (Paperback) ISBN: 1565490835, (Cloth) ISBN: 1565490843. This book may be ordered online through Hunger Notes' bookstore. Peter Uvin shifts focus from the role played by the international community in responding to the Rwandan genocide of...

Human Nutrition in the Developing World

by Michael C. Latham Pub.: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), (Food and Nutrition Series, V. 29, No. 2). FAO Bookshop, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, ITALY. Year: 1997. Paperback. 508 pp. ISBN: 925103818X. E-mail: Publications-sales@fao.org. Reviewed by Joan Allen-Peters This book...

Reviewed By: Joan Allen-Peters