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The Forces Behind Famine

The Forces Behind Famine

Released Wednesday, 12th August 2009
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The Forces Behind Famine

The Forces Behind Famine

The Forces Behind Famine

The Forces Behind Famine

Wednesday, 12th August 2009
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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet more than 9 million people die each year of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases—most of them in Africa and most of them children. Roger Thurow joins the Council for a look at the geopolitics that allow some countries to prosper while others starve. Looking at Africa, he examines how subsidies and food aid are going awry, and how many well-intentioned strategies contribute to keeping the poor hungry and unable to feed themselves. Thurow has been a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries.

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