The Reproach Of Hunger

Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439148594

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The Reproach of Hunger by David Rieff Pdf

Hailed as “invaluable…a substantial work of political thought,” (New Statesman) in a groundbreaking report, based on years of reporting, David Rieff assesses whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is truly within our reach, as is increasingly promised. Can we provide enough food for nine billion people in 2050, especially the bottom poorest in the Global South? Some of the most brilliant scientists, world politicians, and aid and development experts forecast an end to the crisis of massive malnutrition in the next decades. The World Bank, IMF, and Western governments look to public-private partnerships to solve the problems of access and the cost of food. “Philanthrocapitalists” Bill Gates and Warren Buffett spend billions to solve the problem, relying on technology. And the international development “Establishment” gets publicity from stars Bob Geldorf, George Clooney, and Bono. “Hunger, [David Rieff] writes, is a political problem, and fighting it means rejecting the fashionable consensus that only the private sector can act efficiently” (The New Yorker). Rieff, who has been studying and reporting on humanitarian aid and development for thirty years, takes a careful look. He cites climate change, unstable governments that receive aid, the cozy relationship between the philanthropic sector and giants like Monsanto, that are often glossed over in the race to solve the crisis. “This is a stellar addition to the canon of development policy literature” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Reproach of Hunger is the most complete and informed description of the world’s most fundamental question: Can we feed the world’s population? Rieff answers a careful “Yes” and charts the path by showing how it will take seizing all opportunities; technological, cultural, and political to wipe out famine and malnutrition.

Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784783372

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The Reproach of Hunger by David Rieff Pdf

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 price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of 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 crisis, as well as the failures to respond to the disaster. In addition to the failures to address climate change, poor governance and misguided optimism, Rieff cautions against the increased privatization of aid, with such organization as the Gates Foundation spending more that the WHO on food relief. The invention of the celebrity campaigner - from Bono to Jeffrey Sachs - whose business-led solutions have robbed development of its political urgency. The hope that the crisis of food scarcity of food production can be solved by a technological innovation. In response Rieff demands that we rethink the fundamental causes of the world's grotesque inequalities and see the issue as a political challenge we are all failing to confront.

Author : David Shields
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307593238

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Reality Hunger by David Shields Pdf

A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past and present, to reframe debates about the veracity of memoir and the relevance of the novel. He argues that our culture is obsessed with “reality,” precisely because we experience hardly any, and urgently calls for new forms that embody and convey the fractured nature of contemporary experience.

Author : Eric Holt-Gimenez
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509522040

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Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It? by Eric Holt-Gimenez Pdf

Nearly a third of the world’s population suffers from hunger or malnutrition. Feeding them – and the projected population of 10 billion people by 2050 – has become a high-profile challenge for states, philanthropists, and even the Fortune 500. This has unleashed a steady march of initiatives to double food production within a generation. But will doing so tax the resources of our planet beyond its capacity? In this sobering essay, scholar-practitioner Eric Holt-Giménez argues that the ecological impact of doubling food production would be socially and environmentally catastrophic and would not feed the poor. We have the technology, resources, and expertise to feed everyone. What is needed is a thorough transformation of the global food regime – one that increases equity while producing food and reversing agriculture’s environmental impacts.​

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781425000868

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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle Pdf

Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" is considered to be one of the most important treatises on ethics ever written. In an incredibly detailed study of virtue and vice in man, Aristotle examines one of the most central themes to man, the nature of goodness itself. In Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics," he asserts that virtue is essential to happiness and that man must live in accordance with the "doctrine of the mean" (the balance between excess and deficiency) to achieve such happiness.

Author : Lange, John Peter
Publisher : Delmarva Publications, Inc.
Page : 3506 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, Volume 5 by Lange, John Peter Pdf

All sixty-three of the original volumes are included in a nine volumes set. There are two linked indexes in this volume, a main index at the front of this volume that will take you to the beginning each of the books of the bible and another index at the beginning of each book there is a linked scripture index leading to the particular subject. Lange’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, translated, revised, edited and enlarged from the German editions of John Peter Lange and many contributors, and edited by Philip Schaff. Lange’s Commentary on the entire Bible has remained one of the most useful and valuable work of its kind. It is conservative in theology and universal in hermeneutics. Delmarva Publications is proud to make it available in digital format. The original work was completed in 63 volumes, but we have made it available in 9 volumes they are: Volume 1 - Genesis to Ruth Volume 2 -1 Samuel to Esther Volume 3 - Job to Ecclesiastes Volume 4 - Song of Songs to Lamentations Volume 5 - Ezekiel to Malachi Volume 6 - Matthew to John Volume 7 - Acts to 2 Corinthians Volume 8 - Galatians to 2 Timothy Volume 9 -Titus to Revelation

Author : Lambie-Mumford, Hannah,Silvasti, Tiina
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447347583

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The Rise of Food Charity in Europe by Lambie-Mumford, Hannah,Silvasti, Tiina Pdf

As the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon. Leading researchers provide case studies from the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, each considering the history and driving political and social forces behind the rise of food charity, and the influence of changing welfare states. They build into a rich comparative study that delivers valuable evidence for anyone with an academic or professional interest in related issues including social policy, exclusion, poverty and justice.

Author : Johann Peter Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
ISBN : UOM:39015073323746

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Ezekil, Daniel by Johann Peter Lange Pdf

Author : Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
ISBN : UIUC:30112114870071

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Minor prophets by Johann Peter Lange,Philip Schaff Pdf

Author : Johann Peter Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HWRSL9

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Ezekiel by Johann Peter Lange Pdf

Author : Niamh Ann Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781838608712

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Imaging the Great Irish Famine by Niamh Ann Kelly Pdf

The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

Author : Chris Otter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Diet
ISBN : 9780226697109

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Diet for a Large Planet by Chris Otter Pdf

Meat -- Wheat -- Sugar -- Risk -- Violence -- Metabolism -- Bodies -- Earth -- Acceleration.

Author : David Rieff
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416554288

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Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff Pdf

Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. Rieff's brave, passionate, and unsparing witness of the last nine months of her life, from her initial diagnosis to her death, is both an intensely personal portrait of the relationship between a mother and a son, and a reflection on what it is like to try to help someone gravely ill in her fight to go on living and, when the time comes, to die with dignity. Rieff offers no easy answers. Instead, his intensely personal book is a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. In his most profound work, this brilliant writer confronts the blunt feelings of the survivor -- the guilt, the self-questioning, the sense of not having done enough. And he tries to understand what it means to desire so desperately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living. Drawing on his mother's heroic struggle, paying tribute to her doctors' ingenuity and faithfulness, and determined to tell what happened to them all, Swimming in a Sea of Death subtly draws wider lessons that will be of value to others when they find themselves in the same situation.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Johann Peter Lange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Bible
ISBN : UGA:32108024942545

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A Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal, and Homiletical by Johann Peter Lange Pdf