My Nonprofit Reviews

I have used Food First literature in many of my classes because the books, short papers, and other literature are always engagingly written, supported with solid research that is carefully cited, and providing positive suggestions about what readers can do to improve their world. I have lived for over 6 years in rural Asia and so know how well Food First books convey to the reader a sense of what life is like for struggling rural people. This work makes understandable to American students the desperate conditions that 1/6th of the world's people must endure. As the name suggests, making food available to people is the primary focus, a focus that involves looking deeply into the social and economic forces that create hunger. The careful examination of those forces, as they interact in a nested hierarchy of scales, from household, to village, to region, to state, to international economy provides a sophisticated, yet accessible way to understand our globalizing world. As I said above the goal of improving the welfare of the most powerless keeps their work centered on essentials.

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