Edición totalmente revisada y actualizada de uno de los libros más completos sobre el hambre en el mundo. Sus autores, tres de los más destacados expertos internacionales en alimentación y agricultura, analizan minuciosamente los mitos que impiden afrontar debidamente esa problemática.
Basándose en las detalladas investigaciones realizadas por el Institut for Food and Development Policy (Food First), Lappé, Collins y Rosset estudian en profundidad las políticas que han impedido y siguen impidiendo que la gente pueda alimentarse a sí misma en todo el mundo, tanto en los países del sur como en los del norte.
Al mismo tiempo, analizan los criterios erróneos que durante años han influido negativamente sobre nuestros propios intereses nacionales, sociales y humanitarios. Escrito en un estilo sencillo y accesible, este libro contribuye a desmontar mitos tenidos como irrebatibles y, lo más importante, convence a los lectores de que ponerse del lado de los hambrientos no sólo es un gesto humanitario sino un modo de contribuir al bienestar de toda la especie humana.
"Doce mitos sobre el hambre" enfoca problemas de enorme significado para la humanidad y apoyándose en información muy valiosa y con frecuencia sorprendente, sus autores desbordan en perspicacia, sentido común y una profunda honestidad. Más que en una obra de consulta, este libro merece convertirse en una guía práctica para la acción.?
Noam Chomsky, MIT
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MOORE LAPPÉ, FRANCES
Frances Moore Lappé (born February 10, 1944) is the author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. She is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy. Her most recent book is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want.<BR><BR>Editorial Icaria
ROSSET, PETER
Dr. Peter Rosset is based in Oaxaca, Mexico, where he is a researcher at the Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano (Center of Studies for Rural Change in Mexico), and co-coordinator of the Land Research Action Network. He is also Global Alternatives Associate of the Center for the Study of the Americas and an affiliated scholar of the University of California, both in Berkeley, California, USA. He is the former co-director of Food First/The Institute for Food and Development Policy in Oakland, California.<BR><BR>He previously served as executive director of the Stanford University Regional Center in Chiapas, Mexico. During the 1980s he spent eight years in Central America, where he led several sustainable agriculture projects. Peter has taught at Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Texas at Austin, the National Agrarian University of Nicaragua, the Havana Agricultural University (ISCAH) and the University of Las Villas, both in Cuba, and the Tropical Center for Agricultural Research & Education (CATIE) in Costa Rica. Peter has also been a Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and is a Board Member of Focus on the Global South in Thailand.<BR><BR>He is a food rights activist, agroecologist and rural development specialist with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His published books include The Case for a GM-Free Sustainable World (2003); Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba (Food First Books, 2002); America Needs Human Rights (Food First Books, 1999); World Hunger: 12 Myths, Second Edition (Grove Press, 1998); The Nicaragua Reader (Grove Press, 1983); Nicaragua: Unfinished Revolution (Grove Press, 1986); The Greening of the Revolution: Cuba's Experiment with Organic Agriculture (Ocean Press, 1994); Agroecology (McGraw-Hill, 1990); and A Cautionary Tale: Failed US Development Policy in Central America (Lynne Rienner, 1996).<BR><BR>http://www.policyinnovations.org/innovators/people/data/07114