the world cannot feed 9.3 billion people

The world is sleepwalking into a famine of catastrophic proportions. More than a million people in the world today are on the verge of daily starvation. Another billion are in ‘hidden hunger’. The numbers are increasing daily.

We are saving more people by offering vaccines in infancy, to let them die later through the applications of global policies which are often actually perverse. This book explains in simple language the challenges ahead, the bleak reality facing billions of poor people, some in the richest countries on earth and the inconsistency of our approach to trying to tackle world poverty.

Sleepwalking inTO glObal famine By Benny Dembitzer Out on 10th May £5 plus p&p

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Jennifer Clapp

Peter Dauvergne & Jane Lister

“In this admirably clear exposition Clapp explains the increasing ‘financialisation’ of food commodities. Will sub-prime eaters be blamed for some future market crash? It makes you think twice about a second breakfast.” The Guardian

Pb 978-0-7456-4936-8 £12.99 November 2011 200 pages

Fish

Elisabeth R. DeSombre & J. Samuel Barkin

“A great environmental case study. Once you’ve read this book, you’ll be hooked.” The Ecologist

Pb 978-0-7456-5020-3 £12.99 May 2011 200 pages

“In what increasingly reads like a Sherlock Holmes thriller, the authors unravel the alliances and corruption of the giant multinational players involved in the rape of the forests.” Irish Examiner

Pb 978-0-7456-4928-3 £12.99 March 2011 200 pages

Coltan

Michael Nest

“A clear, thorough and urgent contribution to our understanding of what’s going on – and, hopefully, to the campaign to end it.” New Internationalist

Pb 978-0-7456-4932-0 £12.99 March 2011 200 pages available now from all good bookshops

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