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Book cover image of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow

Authors: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
ISBN-13: 9781586485115, ISBN-10: 1586485113
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Date Published: June 2009
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Roger Thurow

Roger Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years. Scott Kilman has been the Journal‘s leading agriculture reporter. Thurow and Kilman recently won the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award.

Book Synopsis

A powerful indictment of the economic, political, and social dynamics that perpetuate famine

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

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