No. 267 / May 1995
Hunger in a world of plenty
Wealth, not scarcity, makes people hungry. And pushing the
'free' market
as a panacea is like prescribing pneumonia for a cold.
- Editor's Letter
-
Hunger
in a world of plenty - Keynote Editorial
Eight hundred million people don't have enough to eat because they can't pay the price. Dinyar Godrej argues the case for change. - Bread
A poem from Sierra Leone poet Syl Cheney-Coker. - Fields of memory
Experience and persistence bear fruit in Tigray, Ethiopia. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher sees the greening of the terraces.
THE ISSUES: Appropriate agriculture - The Grim Reaper goes shopping
...to support his local superstore. A comic strip by PJ Polyp. - Attack of the shrimps
There's a crustacean on the loose in coastal Bangladesh and it's hitting people where it hurts. Philip Gain investigates.
THE ISSUES: Protecting the Environment - HUNGER - THE FACTS
- The cost of living
Why is Mary always hungry? A short story from Pakistan by Maria del Nevo.
THE ISSUES: Women's Hunger - Forbidden territory
Broken promises in the Philippines. - Captured by the Company
Like an oil slick, Cargill Incorporated has spread around the world. Brewster Kneen takes stock of the mess.
THE ISSUES: Trade and Transnationals - Simply - making the food go around
- Crap Dinner and the Good Food Box
Murray Macadam discovers that Toronto's poor now have a choice. - Jacqueline's garden
It doesn't grow flowers and it's not really a garden, but for some of Sao Paulo's hungry it offers hope. Alex Shankland reports on Brazil's Campaign Against Hunger.
THE ISSUES: Social Justice
- ACTION AND READING MATERIAL ON HUNGER
- Letters
- Letter from Russia
- Update
- The NI Interview with Sarah Schulman
- Reviews: including Andy Goldsworthy classic
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FRONT COVER ART BY CLAUDE BAILLARGEON
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