Books & Media Reviews

The Regenerative Agriculture Solution – a Review

by James Phillips, WHES Board https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-regenerative-agriculture-solution/?srsltid=AfmBOoo8CKN09rnRlefi2JEioOFBMO3u3a0QudLijTBiyWZps0Wdzz-i October 3, 2025

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

by August 21, 2025

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

by August 12, 2025

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

by https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780593834510/vaclav-smil/how-to-feed-the-world?blnBKM=1 August 8, 2025

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

by June 15, 2025

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 ...

World Hunger Day

by May 28, 2025

May 28 is World Hunger Day, a global initiative to raise awareness about global hunger and inspire action to address food insecurity and malnutrition.  World Hunger Day has been celebrating sustainable solutions to hunger and poverty since 2011, and this year targets the importance of "sowing resil...

Book Review: Hot, Hungry Planet

by April 8, 2025

Lisa Palmer's book, Hot, Hungry Planet, The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change, presents seven case studies of individuals working in different continents in the race against hunger, noting that "with a growing population, the demand for rice and other cereals ...

Book Review: We Fed an Island – the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

by April 8, 2025

The book, “We Fed An Island - One Meal at a Time” by Chef Jose Andres (2018, Harper Collins Publisher) describes how the NGO, World Central Kitchen (WCK), reacted to the 2017 Hurricane Maria after it hit Puerto Rico, knocking out power and destroying homes. Several days after the hurricane, Chef...

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Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine

by https://time.com/7216387/feeding-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/ February 21, 2025

The newly released Time Magazine review (Feb. 20, 2025) of "Women of the Year" features Claire Babineaux-Fonteno for her nation-wide advocacy to end hunger.   (https://time.com/7216387/feeding-am...

Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book

by January 14, 2025

Book Review:    Roger Thurow’s Against the Grain:  How Farmers Around the Globe are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet (2024, Publisher:  Agate Surrey) American journalist, Roger Thurow, has written consistently about global hunger a...

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