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The Last Hunger Season

Author : Roger Thurow
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610393422
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Last Hunger Season written by Roger Thurow and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said, "from misery to Canaan," the land of milk and honey. Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities, wretched roads, and no capital or credit, they harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. The romantic ideal of African farmers -- rural villagers in touch with nature, tending bucolic fields -- is in reality a horror scene of malnourished children, backbreaking manual work, and profound hopelessness. Growing food is their driving preoccupation, and still they don't have enough to feed their families throughout the year. The wanjala -- the annual hunger season that can stretch from one month to as many as eight or nine -- abides. But in January 2011, Leonida and her neighbors came together and took the enormous risk of trying to change their lives. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with four of them -- Leonida Wanyama, Rasoa Wasike, Francis Mamati, and Zipporah Biketi -- to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger. The daily dramas of the farmers' lives unfold against the backdrop of a looming global challenge: to feed a growing population, world food production must nearly double by 2050. If these farmers succeed, so might we all.

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa

Author : Jacqueline Hanoman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367333089
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Hunger and Poverty in South Africa written by Jacqueline Hanoman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurityexplores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality. Based on extensive original research in Free State Province, South Africa, the book explores how people living in poverty make meaning of their food circumstances within the socio-cultural, political and economic contexts of post-apartheid South Africa, how they view the government's food security policies and programs and their perceived agency to affect change. The personal narratives contained in the book show that food insecurity is shaped by many issues, among which are structural poverty, racism, attempts or non-attempts at reconciliation during and after apartheid, public health issues such as HIV/AIDS, and environmental circumstances. At a time when most discourse around food insecurity focuses on how to provide more food to people facing hunger, this book's multidimensional approach is a valuable contribution to the contemporary dialogue on poverty, food security/insecurity, sustainability and democratic agency both within South Africa and around the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of food security, multidimensional poverty, democratic agency and sustainable development, both in South Africa and internationally. dimensional approach is a valuable contribution to the contemporary dialogue on poverty, food security/insecurity, sustainability and democratic agency both within South Africa and around the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of food security, multidimensional poverty, democratic agency and sustainable development, both in South Africa and internationally.

Drought and Hunger in Africa

Author : National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.)
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521368391
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Drought and Hunger in Africa written by National Center for Atmospheric Research (U.S.) and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a synthesis of the ideas that emerged from a colloquium held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

A Common Hunger

Author : Joan G. Fairweather
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381927
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book A Common Hunger written by Joan G. Fairweather and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications places a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. This book considers the efforts by both Canada and South Africa to reconcile the damage left by colonial expansion, in part, looking back with a critical eye, but also pointing the way towards a solution that will satisfy the common need for human dignity

Food Security in Africa

Author : Barakat Mahmoud
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1789857333
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Food Security in Africa written by Barakat Mahmoud and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, farming and nutrition. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the public health and food security research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Africa’s food security challenges, quality of water, small-scale farming as well as economic and social challenges that this continent is facing. Hopefully, this volume will open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Why is There Hunger in Africa?

Author : Jane Boston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why is There Hunger in Africa? written by Jane Boston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Unit Introduction: For many people in the world, food seems to be constantly at hand. Through television and magazine advertisements, the mushrooming of fast food outlets, and the sheer size of supermarkets, food appears to be an overwhelming presence in Western Europe, much of North America, and parts of Asia. In much of the "developed" world, when there is hunger, it is most likely a result of poverty, not a lack of food. However, in many parts of the developing world, the absence of food is as visible as the presence of food is elsewhere. It is clear that hunger remains a persistent problem throughout the world. During the 1980s, famines in such countries as Ethiopia, the Sudan, and Mozambique provided the world with stark images of widespread hunger and human misery in many parts of the African continent. Although hunger is often associated with the African continent, issues of food security face many parts of the world. The case study in this unit focuses on Africa and issues related to hunger facing the entire continent. However, it is important to remind your students that there are enormous disparities within African countries as well as between countries regarding the actual situation of food production and food availability. Rarely have problems related to hunger been identified by the media and government officials as being connected with the underlying economic, political and environmental difficulties affecting food production and food security. Due in part to the images presented to the casual observer, famine and drought seem so closely related that one recent collection of essays on the Sahelian (West African) famines of the 1970s was entitled Nature Pleads Not Guilty. In their study of hunger in Africa, development practitioners and academics often reflect the perspective of their particular discipline, rather than using a complex, interactive model of the causes of hunger. This leads to the emphasis on one particular problem, such as drought, failures of African governments, or foreign aid.--page 9

Famine, Hunger and Starvation in Africa

Author : John Karefah Marah
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467803901
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Famine, Hunger and Starvation in Africa written by John Karefah Marah and published by Author House. This book was released on 2006-05-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skeletal bodies of men and women staring lifelessly out of sunken eye sockets. Children with bloated stomach who look decades older than their actual years. Crowds stampeding towards helicopters. Trucks unloading food donated by international humanitarian organizations. Hunger, starvation, famine and death, depicted in their worst forms. These are some of the images the media have succeeded in creating and fostering on the minds of the general public all over the world about the African famine. Famine in Africa is real, seemingly perpetual, and not getting any better. If anything, it is worsening. The lives of millions of people are at risk right now.Can the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa be solved? Has international food aid helped in any realistic way? Did the African create the problem? What role did globalization play in creating the problem? This is the book that asks all the questions that many have not dared to ask and provides all the answers people have not dared to provide. It discusses, analyzes, and puts the issue in its proper historical context, by delving into the past and providing details of the underlying factors that contributed to the creation of the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa

Now is the Time

Author : Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Now is the Time written by Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies

Author : Irma Eloff
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030153673
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Quality of Life in African Societies written by Irma Eloff and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook reflects on quality-of-life in societies on the continent of Africa. It provides a widely interdisciplinary text with insights on quality-of-life from a variety of scientific perspectives. The handbook is structured into sections covering themes of social context, culture and community; the environment and technology; health; education; and family. It is aimed at scholars who are working towards sustainable development at the intersections of multiple scientific fields and it provides measures of both objective and subjective quality-of-life. The scholarly contributions in the text are based on original research and it spans fields of research such as cultures of positivity, wellbeing, literacy and multilinguism, digital and mobile technologies, economic growth, food and nutrition, health promotion, community development, teacher education and family life. Some chapters take a broad approach and report on research findings involving thousands, and in one case millions, of participants. Other chapters zoom in and illustrate the importance of specificity in quality-of-life studies. Collectively, the handbook illuminates the particularity of quality-of-life in Africa, the unique contextual challenges and the resourcefulness with which challenges are being mediated. This handbook provides empirically grounded conceptualizations about life in Africa that also encapsulate the dynamic, ingenious ways in which we, as Africans, enhance our quality-of-life.

Enough

Author : Roger Thurow
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458767337
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Enough written by Roger Thurow and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

Beyond Hunger in Africa

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Hunger in Africa written by Chinua Achebe and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Starving on a Full Stomach

Author : Diana Wylie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813920689
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Starving on a Full Stomach written by Diana Wylie and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Wylie is Associate Professor of History at Boston University, and the author of A Little God: The Twilight of Patriarchy in a Southern African Chiefdom.

Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Lisa C. Smith
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896291502
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Lisa C. Smith and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addressing the pervasive problem of hunger in the developing world, reliable information on food insecurity is essential for effectively targeting assistance, developing interventions, and evaluating progress. Yet arriving at an accurate and comparable measure of food insecurity remains a challenge. This report introduces new estimates of food insecurity based on food acquisition data collected as part of national household expenditure surveys (HESs). The report explores the extent and location of food insecurity, the scientific merit of estimates derived from HES food data, the differences between HES-based estimates and those reported by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and-ultimately-how HES data can be used to improve the accuracy of the FAO estimates currently used to monitor progress toward reducing hunger

Africa

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Famine in Africa

Author : von Braun, Joachim
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0801866294
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Famine in Africa written by von Braun, Joachim and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though famine has affected many parts of the world in the twentieth century, the conditions that produce famineextreme poverty, armed conflict, economic and political turmoil, and climate shocksare now most prevalent in Africa. Researchers differ on how to address this problem effectively, but their arguments are often not informed by empirical analysis from a famine context. Broadening current theories and models of development for conquering famine, Famine in Africa grounds its findings in long-term empirical research, especially on the impact of famine on households and markets. The authors present the results of field work and other research from numerous parts of Africa, with a particular focus on Botswana, Ethiopia, Niger, Rwanda, Sudan, and Zimbabwe. With these data, the authors explain the factors that cause famines and assess efforts to mitigate and prevent them. Famine in Africa is an important resource for international development specialists, students, and policymakers.

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa

Author : Jacqueline Hanoman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315406047
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Hunger and Poverty in South Africa written by Jacqueline Hanoman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality. Based on extensive original research in Free State Province, South Africa, the book explores how people living in poverty make meaning of their food circumstances within the socio-cultural, political and economic contexts of post-apartheid South Africa, how they view the government’s food security policies and programs and their perceived agency to affect change. The personal narratives contained in the book show that food insecurity is shaped by many issues, among which are structural poverty, racism, attempts or non-attempts at reconciliation during and after apartheid, public health issues such as HIV/AIDS, and environmental circumstances. At a time when most discourse around food insecurity focuses on how to provide more food to people facing hunger, this book's multidimensional approach is a valuable contribution to the contemporary dialogue on poverty, food security/insecurity, sustainability and democratic agency both within South Africa and around the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of food security, multidimensional poverty, democratic agency and sustainable development, both in South Africa and internationally.

Famine and Recovery in Africa

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Famine and Recovery in Africa written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Hunger and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: