Books & Media Reviews
World Hunger Day
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
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 is expect...
Book Review: We Fed an Island – the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
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...
Feeding America’s Claire Babineaux-Fonteno Cited by Time Magazine
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-america-ceo-claire-babineaux-fontenot/) Babineux-Fonteno heads the nonprofit Feeding America, described b...
Regenerative Agriculture to Mitigate Hunger: Thurow’s Latest Book
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 and food issues for many years...
Film Mischaracterizes Humanitarian Aid Work
Hollywood’s Fictional Narratives have Real-World Consequences for Humanitarian Aid Opinion by Amy Leah Potter In 2017, I was briefly held at gunpoint by members of the Houthi Rebel group in Northern Yemen. My presence in their territory was questioned at a checkpoint, leading to my detainment. For...
Why Nations Fail, Famine and the Nobel Prize
The 2024 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded in October to the authors Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in part for the analysis of international inequalities in their best-selling 2012 book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Crown Publishers), which arrays econo...
Stalled Progress Against Hunger for Third Consecutive Year
For the third year in a row, global hunger remains persistently high after the increase during and because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations’ State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 (SOFI) report, released in July 2024, estimates that 733 million people across the globe a...
Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response by Fred Cuny
Book Classic: Famine, Conflict and Response: a Basic Guide By Fred Cuny, with Rick Hill (West Hartford, CN: Kumarian Press 1999) This basic, extremely readable text about famine prevention and relief remains a preferred textbook decades after first written by Fred Cuny, and...
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World
BOOK REVIEW: The Enduring Struggle: The History of the U.S. Agency for International Development and America’s Uneasy Transformation of the World, by John Norris. 2021. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher. America's primary international assistance organization, for moving ...
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