In 2000 the world's leaders and experts agreed that the eradication
of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the
last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen
by many as the cause of widening poverty gap and political unrest
from the Arab Spring to Latin America. This food crisis has
condemned the bottom billion of the world's population who live on
less than $1 a day to a state of constant hunger. In The Reproach
of Hunger leading expert on humanitarian aid and development, David
Rieff, goes in search of the causes of this food security crisis,
as well as the failures to respond to the disaster. In addition to
the failures to address climate change, poor governance and
misguided optimism, Rieff cautions against the increased
privatization of aid, with such organization as the Gates
Foundation spending more that the WHO on food relief. The invention
of the celebrity campaigner - from Bono to Jeffrey Sachs - whose
business-led solutions have robbed development of its political
urgency. The hope that the crisis of food scarcity of food
production can be solved by a technological innovation. In response
Rieff demands that we rethink the fundamental causes of the world's
grotesque inequalities and see the issue as a political challenge
we are all failing to confront.
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