Describes the characteristics of droughts and famines, offers insight into the experiences of various children who have survived these hazardous living conditions, and identifies areas of devastation on maps.
Examines the links between climate and culture by looking at the long-term effects of El Nino on weather patterns over the past five millennia and studying the impact on human civilization during that time.
This book explores hunger and malnutrition, farming, wars, politics, population growth, the Green Revolution, and the many other topics that make feeding the world a complicated issue.
Chronicles the events of 1929 to 1933 in the Ukraine when Stalin's Soviet Communist Party killed or deported millions of peasants; abolished privately held land and forced the remaining peasantry into "collective" farms; and inflicted impossible grain quotas on the peasants that resulted in mass starvation.
Superman attempts to alleviate world hunger by delivering food to starving people and countries, but he soon realizes the job is too big for one man--even a Superman.
The author analyzes the social, economical, and political conflicts in the Sudan, and focuses on the survival of a people who underwent severe famine and disease during the 1980s.
