Bread for the World

by Arthur Simon

Examines social, economic, and political aspects of international hunger and of its possible alleviation and explains how the ordinary person can help to shape public policy conducive to greater, more effective efforts toward alleviation

Genres: Social Justice, Nonfiction

217 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Kate]

Concurrently motivating, and yet frightening, that 35 years later many of the problems and solutions surrounding hunger still exist. That made this a difficult read. The book clearly delineates everyday consumer choices as well political policies that have a direct correlation to the fact that now 1 in 6 people in this world are food insecure (2010 statistic).
Where the action items the author lists might have been hopeful in 1974, I find them frustrating that in 2010, the same options exists, as well as the problem of hunger. However, the author mitigates such pessimism by demonstrating that small changes make a world a difference. The most important of those small actions is one so often ignored- voting power. In order for the world to successfully feed its' people, we must enact policies that encourage access to food over profit. It's simple, it's direct, but we just don't do it.
Whether you go here every day to click for hunger: http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToG...
Or go to Bread for the World's website to act http://www.bread.org/help/write-congr...
Or explore this website and take the pledge, for it is Hunger Action Month! http://hungeractionmonth.org/

[Mckinley]

Clear and easy to follow look at world hunger from agriculture to economics to religion.