Hope's Edge

Anna Lappé is the coauthor with her mother, Frances Moore Lappé, of the national bestselling Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. Her second book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, was published in 2006. The cofounder of the Small Planet Institute and the Small Planet Fund, Anna's articles and op-eds have been widely published, appearing in The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, and the Globe and Mail, among others. Anna is a sought after public speaker and commentator on food politics, globalization, and the media and has been featured in Organic Style, Utne, and O: The Oprah Magazine. In 2002, she was the first recipient of the Bioneers Youth Award, given…

"Some of the 20th century's most vibrant activist thinkers have been American women—Margaret Mead, Jeanette Rankin, Barbara Ward, Dorothy Day—who took it upon themselves to pump life into basic truths. Frances Moore Lappé is among them." —Washington Post

Frances Moore Lappé’s message has never been more timely. Her 1971, three-million-copy bestseller, Diet for a Small Planet, awakened a whole generation to the irrationality of feeding mountains of grain to livestock, which return in meat only a tiny fraction of the nutrients fed. Today, with concerns growing over genetically modified organisms and impact of corporate globalization, she teamed up with her daughter Anna to write a sequel.

Mother and daughter then completed Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet. In it,…