The Reproach of Hunger
Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century
Why have we failed to address the crisis of hunger in the twenty-first century?
In 2000 the world’s leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the prices of wheat, soya, and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of the widening poverty gap and political unrest from the Arab Spring to Latin America. This food crisis has condemned the bottom billion of the world’s population who live on less than $1 a day to a state of constant hunger.
In The Reproach of Hunger, leading expert on humanitarian aid and development David Rieff goes in search of the causes of this food security…