Enough

In this title, two veteran "Wall Street Journal" reporters - issue a powerful indictment of the economic, political, and social dynamics that encourage hunger and famine to continue even though we know how to grow enough food to feed the world's population - and point out a clear path to change. Alt [...]
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In this title, two veteran "Wall Street Journal" reporters - issue a powerful indictment of the economic, political, and social dynamics that encourage hunger and famine to continue even though we know how to grow enough food to feed the world's population - and point out a clear path to change. Although the science and technology necessary to conquer famine has been available to us for more than thirty years, 25,000 people a day - and six million children a year - die of hunger, malnutrition and related diseases. Thurow and Kilman, veteran reporters with "The Wall Street Journal" and the premier writers on hunger and food aid in American journalism today, (their series of stories on the 2003 famines in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Swaziland-titled "Anatomy of a Famine" - was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in international reporting) perceive this fact as a matter of criminal negligence. In this powerful narrative book, they journey around the world to expose the economic, social, and political dynamics in both the developed and developing worlds that encourage famine to continue (including the U.S. food aid system, U.S.& European farm subsidy programmes, the policies of the World Bank and the IMF, African leaders), document how conquering chronic hunger is achieveable and through what specific steps, and add fuel to the growing groundswell of effort to make it happen. International in focus, written with enormous urgency and passion, "Enough" is a necessary sequel to "The End of Poverty", and will interest the readers who made that book a bestseller, as well as those involved in the new movement to end hunger.