This bibliography for the 2005 World Food Day Study/Action Packet provides both a guide to materials used in preparation of the overview paper and further reading on the issues presented. In keeping with the 60th anniversary theme of the program, Reflections on Fighting Hunger, it includes representative books in the World Food Day library as well as historic publications.
A FAIR GLOBALIZATION – Creating Opportunities for All. World Commission on the Social Dimensions of Globalization. Geneva. 2004.
AGENDA 21 – The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet. Daniel Sitarz, Editor. Earth Press. Boulder Colorado. 1994.
AGRICULTURE: Toward 2000. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome 1981.
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT – An International Perspective. Yujiro Hayami and Vernon Ruttan. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1971.
AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE FUTURE IMPROVEMENT OF SOCIETY. Thomas Malthus. London 1798.
BANKER TO THE POOR -- Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty. Muhammad Yunus. Perseus Books. New York 1999.
BREAD FOR THE WORLD. Arthur Simon. Paulist Press. New York 1975.
BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY. Lester Brown. W.W. Norton & Company. New York 1981.
BY BREAD ALONE. Lester R. Brown with Erik Eckholm. Praeger Publishers. New York 1974.
CREATING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES – The End of Economics. Hazel Henderson. Putnam and Sons. New York. 1980.
CRY OF THE OPPRESSED – The History and Hope of the Human Rights Revolution. Robert F. Drinan. Harper and Row. San Francisco. 1987.
DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM. Amartya Sen. Alfred A. Knopf. New York 1999.
DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET. Frances Moore Lappe. Ballantine Books. New York. 1971.
EARTH IN THE BALANCE – Ecology and the Human Spirit. Vice President Al Gore. Penguin Group. New York 1992.
EAT HERE – Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. Brian Halweil. W.W. Norton and Company. New York 2004.
ENTANGLING ALLIANCES—How the Third World Shapes Our Lives. John Maxwell Hamilton. Seven Locks Press. Maryland. 1990.
FAMINE 1975. William and Paul Paddock. Little, Brown and Company. Boston 1967.
FAO: Its Origins, Formation and Evolution 1945-1981. Ralph W. Phillips. Food and Agriculture Organization. Rome. 1981.
FEEDING AND GREENING THE WORLD – The Role of International Agricultural Research. Derek Tribe. CAB International. United Kingdom 1994.
FEEDING THE FEW: Corporate Control of Food. Susan George. Institute for Policy Studies. Washington DC 1979.
FEEDING THE WORLD’S POPULATION: Developments in the Decade Following the World Food Conference of 1974. Library of Congress. Washington DC. 1984.
FEEDING TOMORROW’S WORLD. Albert Sasson. UNESCO. Paris 1990.
FOOD AS A HUMAN RIGHT. Edited by Eide, et al. United Nations University. 1984.
FOOD IN HISTORY. Reay Tannahill. Stein and Day. New York. 1984.
FOOD FOR PEOPLE, NOT FOR PROFIT. Jacobson and Lerza. Ballantine Books. New York. 1975.
FOOD POLITICS – How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Marion Nestle. University of California Press. 2002.
FREEDOM FROM WANT – The Human Right to Adequate Food. George Kent. Georgetown University Press. Washington DC 2005.
GENE BANKS AND THE WORLD’S FOOD. Plucknett, Smith, Williams and Anishetty. Princeton University Press. 1987.
GEOGRAPHY OF FAMINE. William A. Dando. John Wiley & Sons. New York. 1980.
GIVE US CREDIT -- How Muhammad Yunus’s Micro-Lending Revolution Is Empowering Women from Bangladesh to Chicago. Alex Counts. Random House. New York 1996.
GLOBAL REACH – The Power of Multinational Corporations. Barnett and Muller. Simon and Shuster Inc. New York 1974.
GROWTH AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE. Gray, Gray and Martin. The Dinosaur Press. Connecticut 1975.
HARD TOMATOES, HARD TIMES. Jim Hightower. Schenkman Publishing. Cambridge 1978.
HIGH NOON – 20 Global Problems; 20 Years to Solve Them. J. F. Rischard. Basic Books. New York 2002.
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD – Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas. David Bornstein. Oxford University Press. 2004.
HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING. Urban Jonsson. UNICEF. 2003.
HUNGER IN HISTORY. Lucile Newman, Editor. Basil Blackwell Inc. Massachusetts. 1990.
IF WE HAD HAM, WE COULD HAVE HAM AND EGGS . . IF WE HAD EGGS – A Study of the National School Breakfast Program. Food Research and Action Center. New York 1972.
IF WOMEN COUNTED -- A New Feminist Economics. Marilyn Waring. Harper and Row. San Francisco. 1988.
ILL FARES THE LAND: Essays on Food, Hunger and Power. Susan George. Institute for Policy Studies. Washington DC. 1984.
INSIDE THE THIRD WORLD. Paul Harrison. Penguin Books. London 1979.
JIM GRANT: UNICEF VISIONARY. Richard Jolly, Editor. UNICEF. New York 2001.
LAST OASIS – Facing Water Scarcity. Sandra Postel. W.W. Norton. New York 1992.
LEAN YEARS – Politics in the Age of Scarcity. Richard Barnett. Simon & Shuster Inc. New York 1980.
LET THEM EAT PROMISES – The Politics of Hunger in America. Nick Kotz. Doubleday Anchor Book. New York 1971.
LIMITS TO GROWTH –Report to the Club of Rome. Dennis L. Meadows. University Books. New York 1972.
MAIN STREET AMERICA AND THE THIRD WORLD. John Maxwell Hamilton. Seven Locks Press. Maryland. 1986.
MALNUTRITION – WHAT CAN BE DONE? Alan Berg. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Maryland. 1987.
MEETING THE EXPECTATIONS OF THE LAND – Essays on Sustainable Agriculture and Stewardship. Jackson, Berry and Colman, Editors. North Point Press. San Francisco. 1984.
NEW SEEDS AND POOR PEOPLE. Michael Lipton with Richard Longhurst. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore, Maryland. 1989.
NICKEL AND DIMED: On (not) Getting By in America. Barbara Ehrenreich. Henry Holt & Company. New York 2001.
NORTH-SOUTH – A Program for Survival (Report of Brandt Commission). MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1980.
ONE HUNDRED PAGES FOR THE FUTURE. Aurelio Peccei. Pergamon Press. Elmsford, New York. 1981.
ONE PLANET, MANY PEOPLE: Atlas of Our Changing Environment. UNEP. 2005.
OUR COMMON FUTURE -- Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford University Press. 1987.
OVERCOMING WORLD HUNGER: The Challenge Ahead. Report of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger. 1980.
PARTICIPATION AS PROCESS -- What We Can Learn from Grameen Bank. Fuglesand and Chandler. Norwegian Ministry of Development Cooperation. 1986.
POLITICS OF BABY FOODS – Successful Challenges to an International Marketing Strategy. Andrew Chetley. Frances Pinter Publishers. London 1986.
POPULATION BOMB. Paul Ehrlich. Ballantine Press. New York 1971.
POVERTY AND FAMINES: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation. Amartya Sen. Oxford University Press. 1981.
POVERTY AND MENTAL RETARDATION – A Causal Relationship. Rodger Hurley. Vintage Books. New York 1969.
RIGHT TO FOOD. Alston and Tomasevasi, Editors. Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. Utrecht 1984.
RURAL POVERTY REPORT 2001 – The Challenge of Ending Rural Poverty. International Fund for Agricultural Development. Oxford University Press. 2001.
SEEDS OF THE EARTH – A Private or Public Resource? Pat Roy Mooney. Inter Pares. Ottawa 1980.
SILENT SPRING. Rachel Carson. Houghton Mifflin Company. Massachusetts 1962.
SOIL AND CIVILIZATION. Edward Hyams. Harper and Row. New Edward Hyams. Harper and Row. New York 1976.
STARVING IN THE SHADOW OF PLENTY. Loretta Schwartz-Nobel. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. New York 1981.
STILL HUNGRY IN AMERICA. Robert Coles. World Publishing Company. New York 1969.
THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY – Economic Ideas and Their Consequences. John Kenneth Galbraith. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1977.
THE CASE AGAINST HUNGER -- A Demand for a National Policy. Senator Ernest F. Hollings. Cowless Book Company. 1970.
THE CONDITIONS OF AGRICULTURAL GROWTH –The Economics of Agricultural Change under Population Pressure. Ester Boserup. Aldine de Grutzen. 1965.
THE CROPLAND CRISIS – Myth or Reality? Pierre R. Crosson, Editor. Resources for the Future. Johns Hopkins University Press. Baltimore 1982.
THE END OF POVERTY -- Economic Possibilities for Our Time. Jeffrey D. Sachs. Penguin Press. New York 2005.
THE FEEDING WEB – Issues in Nutritional Ecology. Joan Dye Gussow. Bull Publishing Company. California 1978.
THE HISTORY AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF THE POTATO. Radacliffe Salalman. Cambridge University Press. 1986.
THE LEXLUS AND THE OLIVE TREE – Understanding Globalization. Thomas L. Friedman. Anchor Books. New York 2000.
THE NUTRITION DEBATE – Sorting Out Some Answers. Joan Dye Gussow and Paul R. Thomas. Bull Publishing Company. California 1986.
THE OTHER AMERICA – Poverty in the United States. Michael Harrington. Penguin. Baltimore 1963.
THE OTHER PATH – The Invisible Revolution in the Third World. Hernando De Soto. Harper and Row. New York 1989.
THE PENGUIN ATLAS OF FOOD – Who Eats What, Where and Why. Millstone and Lang. Penguin Books. New York 2003.
THE POLITICS OF THE SOLAR AGE – Alternatives to Economics. Hazel Henderson. Knowledge Systems Inc. Indianapolis 1988.
THE POLITICS OF WORLD HUNGER. Paul and Arthur Simon. Harper’s Magazine Press. New York 1973.
THE PRICE OF A DREAM – The Story of the Grameen Bank. David Bornstein. Simon and Schuster. New York 1996.
THE THIRD FREEDOM – Ending Hunger in Our Time. George McGovern. Simon and Schuster. New York 2001.
THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE. Julian Simon. Princeton University Press. 1980.
THE UNSETTLING OF AMERICA – Culture and Agriculture. Wendell Berry. Avon Publishers. New York 1977.
THE WORLD IS FLAT – A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Thomas L. Friedman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York 2005.
THIRD WORLD WOMEN SPEAK OUT. Perdita Huston. Praeger Publishers. New York 1979.
TILL DEBT DO US PART – Who Wins, Who Loses and Who Pays for the International Debt Crisis. Watkins University Press. New York 1986.
THE UNDERSIDE OF HISTORY – A View of Women Through Time. Elise Boulding. Westview Press. 1976.
VOICES OF THE POOR – Can Anyone Hear Us? Deepa Narayan. Oxford University Press. 2000.
WE THE PEOPLES . . . Nobel Peace Message. Kofi A. Annan. Ruder Finn Press. New York 2002.
WORLD HUNGER – A Guide to the Economic and Political Dimensions. Nicole Ball. ABC-CLIO Inc. Santa Barbara 1991.
WORLD HUNGER – Contemporary World Issues. Patricia L. Kutzner. ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara 1991.
WORLD HUNGER – Twelve Myths. Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. Grove Press Inc. New York 1986.
WORLD WATER AND FOOD TO 2025 -- Dealing with Scarcity. Rosegrant, Cai and Cline. International Food Policy Research Institute. Washington DC 2002,
FAO Reports
REPORT OF THE WORLD FOOD SUMMIT 1997
STATE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE: (Annual) 1947-2004
STATE OF FOOD INSECURITY 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
WORLD AGRICULTURE TOWARDS 2000, 2010, 2015/30
WORLD FOOD SURVEYS: 1946, 1952, 1963, 1977, 1985, 1996
Annual Reports
BREAD FOR THE WORLD Hunger Reports 1990-2005
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT. United Nations Development Program
STATE OF THE WORLD (1984-2005) WorldWatch Institute
STATE OF THE WORLD’S CHILDREN (1981 – 2005) UNICEF
WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT. World Bank
WORLD HEALTH REPORT. World Health Organization.