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| Author | : Lea Shaver |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2020-02-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0300249314 |
An eye-opening exploration of “book hunger”—the unmet need for books in underserved communities—and efforts to universalize access to print Worldwide, billions of people suffer from book hunger. For them, books are too few, too expensive, or do not even exist in their languages. Lea Shaver argues that this is an educational crisis: the most reliable predictor of children’s achievement is the size of their families’ book collections. This book highlights innovative nonprofit solutions to expand access to print. First Book, for example, offers diverse books to teachers at bargain prices. Imagination Library mails picture books to support early literacy in book deserts. Worldreader promotes mobile reading in developing countries by turning phones into digital libraries. Pratham Books creates open access stories that anyone may freely copy, adapt, and translate. Can such efforts expand to bring books to the next billion would-be readers? Shaver reveals the powerful roles of copyright law and licensing, and sounds the clarion call for readers to contribute their own talents to the fight against book hunger.
| Author | : George Kent |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2015-12-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 131726049X |
Why does hunger persist in a world of plenty? Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges the naive notion that everyone wants hunger to end, arguing that the powerful care - but not enough to make a difference. George Kent argues that the central focus in overcoming hunger should be on building stronger communities. It is these communities which can provide mutual support to ensure that people don't go hungry. Kent demonstrates that there is not a shortage of food but of what Amartya Sen terms 'opportunities', and that developing tight-knit communities will lead to more opportunities for the hungry and undernourished. Ending Hunger Worldwide challenges dominant market-led solutions, and will be essential reading for activists, NGO workers and development students looking for a fresh perspective.
| Author | : M. Jahi Chappell |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-01-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0520293088 |
Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful city-run food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. While inevitably imperfect, Belo Horizonte offers a vision of a path away from food system dysfunction, unsustainability, and hunger. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward achieving similar reductions in hunger and food insecurity elsewhere in the developed and developing worlds.
| Author | : Arthur Simon |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 402 |
| Release | : 2019-07-02 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1467457124 |
Have faith. End hunger. Ending hunger is a moral imperative that does not stand alone. Hunger thrives on the racial, social, and economic inequalities that are eating away at the soul of our nation and pulling us apart. But ending hunger could now become the cause that brings us together across partisan lines to make our economy include everyone and work for everybody. The goal of ending hunger nationwide is not only noble but easily within reach. Taking up this goal could give us a corrective lens, a lens of hope for seeing ourselves and our country in a new way. It could also give us better vision for helping the world overcome extreme hunger and poverty. Our failure to speak and write to members of Congress about hunger consigns millions of people here and abroad to diminished lives and premature death, so it is a silence that kills. We can break that silence by urging the nation’s leaders to help end hunger and humanize our economy. This book addresses all people of goodwill, including agnostics and atheists, but with a special word of concern for religious people—Christians in particular—who help through charity, but neglect to use the power of their citizenship against hunger.
| Author | : George Stanley McGovern |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Food relief |
| ISBN | : 0684853345 |
In this book, George McGovern lays out a workable and affordable five-point program to end world hunger. And in the midst of this heated debate one compelling moral issue is clear--every major religion and ethical formulation commands its adherents to feed the hungry. We feed the hungry because it is right. McGoven contends that it will also be economically beneficial to all.
| Author | : Alma Katsu |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 417 |
| Release | : 2023-09-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0593544293 |
"Supernatural suspense at its finest . . . It will scare the pants off you." —The New York Times Book Review Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers to the brink of madness. Though they dream of what awaits them in the West, long-buried secrets begin to emerge, and dissent among them escalates to the point of murder and chaos. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains...and whether the evil that has unfolded around them may have in fact been growing within them all along.
| Author | : H. A. Swain |
| Publisher | : Feiwel & Friends |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250061849 |
For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?
| Author | : David M. Beckmann |
| Publisher | : Paulist Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780809138661 |
For Bread for the World's 25th anniversary, the founding and current presidents have written a primer on the causes and cures of hunger. Weaving together the complex global issues involved, the book explains what individuals can do to affect public policy and take action on a personal level.
| Author | : Jackie Morse Kessler |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2010-10-18 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0547505094 |
A teenage girl saddles up to take on worldwide famine—and her own anorexia—in a “fast-paced, witty, and heart-breaking” fantasy adventure (Richelle Mead, #1 New York Times-bestselling author) Jackie Morse Kessler’s Riders of the Apocalypse series follows teens who are transformed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. In Hunger, Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen? Traveling the world on her steed gives Lisa freedom from her troubles at home—her constant battle with hunger, and her struggle to hide it from the people who care about her. But being Famine forces her to go places where hunger is a painful part of everyday life, and to face the horrifying effects of her phenomenal power. Can Lisa find a way to harness that power—and the courage to fight her own inner demons? A wildly original approach to the issue of eating disorders, Hunger is about the struggle to find balance in a world of extremes and uses fantastic tropes to explore a difficult topic that touches the lives of many teens. “A great book . . . funny and sad, brilliant and tragic, and most of all, it speaks the truth. I adore it.”—Rachel Caine, New York Times-bestselling author “It was sheer genius to combine the eating disorder anorexia with the ultimate entity signifying lack of food, nourishment and all that that entails: famine.”—New York Journal of Books “The storytelling is both realistic and compassionate.”—School Library Journal, (starred review)
| Author | : Claire Bloom |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2014-06-14 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781499558210 |
End 68 Hours of Hunger is a private, not-for-profit effort to end childhood hunger in America, one school at a time by confronting the 68 hours of hunger some children experience between the free lunch they get in school on Friday and the free breakfast they get in school on Monday. Through local programs that liaison with local schools, End 68 Hours of Hunger provides bags of food to these children to take home on the weekend. These bags provide the children with three dinners, two breakfasts and two lunches.End 68 Hours of Hunger is a 100% volunteer operation, and 100% of all undesignated funds are used to purchase food.Donations can be sent to PO Box 676, Somersworth NH 03878, and you can contact the Executive Director at [email protected].
