Famine books

298 books were found.

Hunger in America: Issues & Assistance

Hunger in America: Issues & Assistance

Author: Gaston T LaBue
ISBN: 9781606928035
Format: Hardback
$229.68

The nutrition title of the omnibus 2008 'farm bill' is the focus of legislation affecting domestic food assistance...  Read More >>

The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective

The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical...

Author: N. Ganson
ISBN: 9780230613331
Format: Hardback
$161.00

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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Author: Stephan Haggard ,  Marcus Noland
ISBN: 9780231140010
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its Soviet Context

Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and Its...

Author: Halyna Hryn ,  Hennadii Boriak
ISBN: 9781932650051
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute commemorated the 70th anniversary of the man-made famine inflicted on Ukraine...  Read More >>

The Hungry Voice

The Hungry Voice

Author: Christopher Morash
ISBN: 9780716530350
Format: Hardback
$197.87

The Hungry Voice brings together in an important and moving collection of Irish poems written between 1845 and 1850...  Read More >>

Famine: A Short History

Famine: A Short History

Author: Cormac O Grada
ISBN: 9780691122373
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation - whether it is inflicted...  Read More >>

Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society

Food Policy: Integrating health, environment and society...

Author: Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, City University, London, UK) ,  David Barling (Senior Lecturer, Centre for Food Policy, City University, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780198567882
Format: Paperback
$155.95

Food policy has long been viewed as an essential part of the public health agenda, but this book identifies the...  Read More >>

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land...

Author: Mark Winne
ISBN: 9780807047316
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"This powerful call to arms offers a realistic vision for getting locally produced, healthy food onto everyone's...  Read More >>

Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crises

Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crises

Author: Luca Alinovi ,  Günter Hemrich
ISBN: 9781853396601
Format: Paperback
$46.45

Using concrete examples, Beyond Relief demonstrates how food security means different things in different contexts...  Read More >>

The Hungry Voice

The Hungry Voice

Author: Christopher Morash
ISBN: 9780716530343
Format: Paperback
$86.99

Brings together poems written between 1845 and 1850 by the men and women who lived through those terrible years....  Read More >>

Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace

Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and...

Author: Kristin L. Ahlberg
ISBN: 9780826266477
Format: Electronic book text
$124.08

Traces the transformation of Public Law 480 from a means of liquidating domestic surplus into a vital component...  Read More >>

Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983-9

Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and...

Author: David Keen
ISBN: 9781847013149
Format: Paperback
$41.95

First paperback edition with a new and updated author's introduction, and a Foreword by Douglas H. Johnson..  Read More >>

Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives

Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring...

Author: Moya Kneafsey ,  Rosie Cox
ISBN: 9781845202538
Format: Paperback
$74.99

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Hunger Efforts & Food Security

Hunger Efforts & Food Security

Author: James C Tobin
ISBN: 9781606921784
Format: Paperback
$113.52

Examines factors that contribute to persistent food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa and the extent to which host...  Read More >>

Famine in the Land of Ulster

Famine in the Land of Ulster

Author: Michael Sheane
ISBN: 9780722338971
Format: Paperback
$20.67

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Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid

Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid...

Author: Jenny Edkins
ISBN: 9780816635078
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape...  Read More >>

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data

Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data...

Author: Molly E. Brown ,  Richard Chourlarton
ISBN: 9783540753674
Format: Hardback
$525.36

This book describes the interdisciplinary work of USAID’s Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) and its...  Read More >>

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land...

Author: Mark Winne
ISBN: 9780807047309
Format: Hardback
$63.23

Closing the Food Gap tells the story of how we get our food: from poor people at food pantries or bodegas and convenience...  Read More >>

Negotiating the Seed Treaty

Negotiating the Seed Treaty

Author: Stuart Coupe ,  Roger Lewins
ISBN: 9781853396281
Format: Paperback
$38.68

This study provides vital lessons for governments, international agencies and NGOs on successful international treaty...  Read More >>

Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and Practice

Nutrition in Public Health: Principles, Policies, and...

Author: Arlene Spark
ISBN: 9780849314735
Format: Hardback
$343.07

Nutrition plays a key role in many areas of public health, such as pre-term delivery, cancer, obesity, diabetes,...  Read More >>

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Author: Stephan Haggard ,  Marcus Noland
ISBN: 9780231140003
Format: Hardback
$173.95

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century....  Read More >>

Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies

Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies

Author: Oxfam ,  Susanne Jaspars
ISBN: 9780855985639
Format: Paperback
$33.51

This book presents the rationale behind cash-transfer programmes, explaining how to assess whether cash is the most...  Read More >>

A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis

A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age...

Author: Marcel Mazoyer ,  Laurence Roudart
ISBN: 9781844073993
Format: Paperback
$59.95

Begins with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting...  Read More >>

World Hunger Series 2006: Hunger and Learning

World Hunger Series 2006: Hunger and Learning

Author: United Nations World Food Programme
ISBN: 9780804755337
Format: Paperback
$41.95

This report, planned to be released annually, is about working through the real-life choices and practical constraints...  Read More >>

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