Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

by Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman

Overview

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year -- most of them children. In this powerful investigative narrative, Wall Street Journal reporters Kilman & Thurow show exactly how, in the past few decades, Western policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786741557
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	06/23/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Roger Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for thirty years. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin WhyHunger award and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award; and the author of The Last Hunger Season. He is a 2009 recipient of the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. A long time Chicagoan, he now lives near Washington, DC.

Scott Kilman has been the Journal's leading agriculture reporter. Thurow and Kilman recently won the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award.

Table of Contents

Preface: With Pious Regret Boricha, the Ethiopian Highlands, 2003 ix

Part I The Unfinished Revolution

1 Seeds of Change: Mexico, 1944 3

2 Flow and Ebb: Oslo, Norway, 1970 17

3 Into Africa: Northern Ethiopia, 1984 35

4 Good for the Goose, Bad for the Gander: Fana, Mali, 2002 53

5 Glut and Punishment: Adami Tulu, Ethiopia, 2003 71

6 Who's Aiding Whom?: Nazareth, Ethiopia, 2003 85

7 Water, Water Everywhere: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2003 99

8 A Diet of Worms: Sudan, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe, 2003 113

Part II Enough Is Enough

9 Resorting to Outrage 129

10 "We Can Do Something About This": Dublin and Seattle 137

11 Take with Food: Mosoriot, Kenya 157

12 Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Around the World 165

13 The Missing Links: Kenya and Ghana 189

14 The Opening Bell: Chicago to Addis Ababa to Qacha's Nek 207

15 Getting Down to Business: Davos to Darfur 225

16 Small Acts, Big Impacts: Kenya, Ohio, and Malawi 243

17 "We Must Not Fail Them": Washington, D. C. 259

Epilogue Hagirso 277

Acknowledgments 285

Notes 287

Index 293

Editorial Reviews

Financial Times
“Thurow and Kilman are journalists who have covered famines in Africa, agricultural policy in the corridors of Washington and Brussels, and food commodities markets in Chicago. Yet their book is more than just a rough first draft of history. While grounded in colourful, entertaining reportage, Enough also displays a depth of thought and research more commonly found in academic studies. Well-chosen anecdotes bring the issues to life. Nothing could illustrate the shortcomings of US food aid policy, in which Washington sells American farmers' output in Africa rather than sending money to buy local food, better than a dialogue between an Ethiopian farmer and a US executive at a food aid meeting in Addis Ababa. The farmer asks the executive enthusiastically: ‘Can you help our farmers sell their beans in America?’ He receives an unexpected answer: ‘Actually, we represent American bean growers.’

AG Week
“I recently received my copy of “Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.” Every person connected to the food industry should read it.

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