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Roger Thurow

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Connection to Illinois: Thurow lives in and is based out of Chicago.

Biography: Thurow has been a Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent for twenty years and has reported from more than sixty countries.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: rthurow@thechicagocouncil.org
Website: http://enoughthebook.com
Roger Thurow on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=roger+thurow


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ISBN: 9781586485115 OCLC: 436275335

PublicAffairs, New York : ©2009.

For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the Green Revolution succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year--most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought, or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself.--From publisher description.

 

 

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