BETTING on FAMINE
Why the World Still Goes Hungry

Contents

Acknowledgments [viii]

List of Abbreviations [x]

Preface [xiii]

Part I. Massacre [1]

1. The Geography of Hunger [3]

2. Invisible Hunger [25]

3. Protracted Crises [29]

 Postscript 1 : The Gaza Ghetto [35]

 Postscript 2 : Refugees from the North Korean Famine [40]

4. The Children of Crateús [43]

5. God Is Not a Farmer [46]

6. “No One Goes Hungry in Switzerland” [51]

7. The Tragedy of Noma [55]

Part II. The Awakening of Conscience [63]

8. Famine and Fatalism : Malthus and Natural Selection [65]

9. Josué de Castro, Phase One [70]

10. Hitler’s “Hunger Plan” [82]

11. A Light in the Darkness : The United Nations [91]

12. Josué de Castro, Phase Two : A Very Heavy Coffin [97]

Part III. Enemies of the Right to Food [103]

13. The Crusaders of Neoliberalism [105]

14. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse [120]

15. When Free Trade Kills [129]

16. Savonarola on Lake Geneva [134]

Part IV. The Collapse of the WFP and the FAO’s Impotence [139]

17. A Billionaire’s Fear [141]

18. Victory of the Predators [151]

19. “Natural” Selection Redux [156]

20. Jalil Jilani and Her Children [159]

21. The Defeat of Jacques Diouf [164]

 Postscript : The Murder of Iraq’s Children [169]

Part V. The Vultures of “Green Gold” [177]

22. A Great Lie [179]

23. Barack Obama’s Obsession [184]

24. The Curse of Sugarcane [187]

 Postscript : Hell in Gujarat [195]

25. Criminal Recolonization [196]

Part VI. The Speculators [205]

26. The “Tiger Sharks” [207]

27. Geneva, World Capital of Agri-Food Speculators [221]

28. Land Grabs and the Resistance of the Damned [225]

29. The Complicity of the Western States [238]

Epilogue [242]

Notes [249]