The Atlas of World Hunger by Thomas J. Bassett, Alex Winter-Nelson

The Atlas of World Hunger



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The Atlas of World Hunger Thomas J. Bassett, Alex Winter-Nelson
Language: English
Page: 217
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0226039072, 9780226039077
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

Review

“The Atlas of World Hunger paints a comprehensive picture of hunger in our time. Bassett and Winter-Nelson thoroughly examine the roots of hunger and poverty and incontrovertibly show their association. By devising a new scale to measure hunger vulnerability and by naming the multiple causes of hunger and poverty around the globe, from local to international levels, the Atlas provides an outline for solutions that will reduce the roster of hungry people from one billion today to zero as soon as possible.”—Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, cofounder of Partners In Health

(Paul Farmer, MD, PhD, cofounder of Partners In Health )

“The Atlas of World Hunger could not come at a more propitious moment, when progress toward the goal of reducing hunger at the global scale has lurched into reverse, with a growing proportion of the world population unable to secure adequate food. Thomas Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson have produced a sophisticated yet accessible volume, sacrificing neither complexity nor legibility, to provide a nuanced and powerful account of the political, economic, and social processes that shape people’s ability to escape chronic hunger.  Deploying maps not merely to illustrate the geographic patterns of hunger but also to interrogate the root causes, they rule out simple explanations such as population growth while finding strong correlations among such factors as gender equality and literacy.  The Atlas will serve as an enduring reference and resource for library collections, of course, but also for countless university courses in development, agriculture, and food.”—Gail Hollander, Florida International University

(Gail Hollander, Florida International University )

“[Bassett and Winter-Nelson] have produced the first global atlas of hunger while at the same time devising an innovative metric for world hunger that yields a surprising and thought-provoking new way to look at data on world hunger.—National Catholic Reporter


(Julien Carriere National Catholic Reporter )

“Thomas Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson document the geography of hunger in a volume that provides a new tool for scholars and policymakers and a clear, vivid, accessible account of global poverty and hunger for students and an enquiring general public. . . . Africa’s extreme vulnerability to hunger, and the reasons for it, are vividly portrayed in the volume’s eighty-two maps, its informative tables and graphs, and the text, which is lucid and nuanced. Bassett’s deep knowledge of African political ecology, and Winter-Nelson’s work on African agricultural economics are evident in the analysis, the illustrations, and clear, engaging explanations of such topics as the origins of African debt, the effect of U.S. agricultural subsidies on West African cotton farmers, malaria, HIV/AIDS, and why supporting the purchasing power of the poor is a more effective intervention than food price controls.”—African Studies Review

(Holly Hanson African Studies Review )

About the Author

Thomas J. Bassett is professor of geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the author or coauthor of six books. Alex Winter-Nelson is professor of agricultural and consumer economics.

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