Food First: The Myth of Scarcity
- ISBN-10
- 0285648969
- ISBN-13
- 9780285648968
- Category
- Food consumption
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Authors
- Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins
Description
The scarcity scare; Blaming nature; Colonial inheritance; Modernizing hunger; The inefficiency of inequality; The trade game; USA - Breadbasket of the world; World hunger as big business; The helping handout: AID for whom; Food self reliance.
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