Books & Media Reviews
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...
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 "10 Global Hunger Hot Spots." This year the report describes a compound crisis model as causing hunger. The c...
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 Nati...
Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future
February 5, 2026 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. ...
“Essentials of Public Health Communication”: Valuable 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, "Ess...
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, published ...
Classic Publication: 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 Export Boom" from 1995 by Lori Ann Thrupp, Gilles Bergeron, and William F. Wa...
Articles about Malnutrition & Field Programs, “Field Exchange”
October 2025 The Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), based out of Dublin, Ireland, has published groundbreaking, field-level technical research about attacking malnutrition for the last few decades in their free journal, "Field Exchange." The latest edition, Issue 76 (October 2025) showcases co...
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 told, boots-...
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 Emergency Relief: the Role of U.S. Foreign Hea...
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