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1	Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion more books like this by Sara Miles add to wishlist Miles has produced a provocative and witty spiritual memoir from an atheist-turned-religious activist. "Take This Bread" is the story of her journey to faith and how she took Jesus' call to feed others by establishing food pantries that feed thousands of people. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.43! \| SVS
2	All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America? more books like this by Joel Berg add to wishlist With the biting wit of "Super Size Me" and the passion of a lifelong activist, Berg draws attention to the growing number of people who are forced to wait in lines at food pantries across the nation. The author challenges the new president to confront the result of U.S. poverty--hunger--and offers a simple and affordable plan to end it for good. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $12.59! \| SVS
3	Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement more books like this by Janet Poppendieck add to wishlist In this study of soup kitchens and other nongovernmental programs that work to combat hunger and poverty, a sociologist asserts that such programs are insufficient to meet the needs of those they serve and are poor replacements for governmental support. She asks whether these well-intentioned efforts might actually serve to perpetuate the problem ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Where Mercy Fails: Darfur's Struggle to Survive more books like this by Chris Herlinger, Paul Jeffrey (Photographer) add to wishlist This new work provides a graphic and literal context for understanding the current tragedy in Darfur and describes a framework for how people of faith are responding to the crisis. see all copies from $14.95! new only from $15.48! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Cause Celeb more books like this by Ms. Helen Fielding add to wishlist After breaking with her erratic newscaster boyfriend, disaffected British publicist Rosie Richardson finds a new, fulfilling career running a relief camp in Africa. When famine hits her community, she returns to London to organize a celebrity benefit, with the help of TV and film high-rollers she met through the ex-boyfriend. High-jinx ensue. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The quality of mercy : Cambodia, holocaust and modern conscience more books like this by William Shawcross add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions
7	Bread for the World more books like this by Arthur R Simon add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Rice, Rivalry, and Politics: Managing Cambodian Relief more books like this by Linda Mason add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.89! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Days of Hunger, Days of Chaos: The Coming Great Food Shortages in America more books like this by Texe Marrs add to wishlist Here are just some of the probing questions this groundbreaking book answers in its investigation into the coming, great food crisis: Does the Illuminati's Rockefeller Foundation now control the seeds of 95 percent of the Earth's major cereal crops-wheat, barley, and corn? (page 69); Is there a "Global Seeds Conspiracy" to place total ownership of ... see all copies from $2.38! new only from $10.83! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy more books like this by Michael Soussan add to wishlist From the corridors of the UN to the palaces of Baghdad, an unprecedented, first person coming of age account of the oil for food scandal that rocked the UN. Michael Soussan was a young, idealistic diplomat when he landed his dream job as a Program Coordinator at the UN's Oil for Food Program, the largest humanitarian operation in the organization ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Geopolitics of Hunger, 2000-2001: Action Against Hunger more books like this by Against Hunger Action, Action Against Hunger add to wishlist This volume explores the use of hunger as a weapon in food crises around the world. It also discusses strategies to counter inequitable food distribution while maintaining neutrality in complex situations and reviews political approaches to combating hunger and attaining food justice. see all copies from $19.99! new only from $19.99!
12	Famine That Kills: Darfur, Sudan more books like this by Alex de Waal add to wishlist When news of the Darfur famine in the '80s broke in the West, relief experts predicted that, without massive food aid, millions of people would starve to death. Food aid on this scale did not arrive, but millions did not starve to death. Analyzing the famine from the perspective of the rural people in the region who suffered it, Alex de Waal ... see all copies from $2.43! new only from $7.70!
13	Whose Hunger?: Concepts of Famine, Practices of Aid more books like this by Jenny Edkins add to wishlist see all copies from $23.36! new only from $24.46! \| SVS
14 view cover	Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity more books like this by H W Singer add to wishlist Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people in the developing world. It is at the centre of much political discussion, both nationally and internationally, and there have been notable successes, yet there is doubt and criticism about the appropriateness of food aid and confusion ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $47.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Community Nutrition more books like this by Jessie Craig Obert add to wishlist The revision of this textbook for courses in community and public health nutrition explains the community structure in which nutrition programs are conducted and how the community nutritionist plans programs for health promotion and disease prevention throughout the life cycle. Programming is based on the nationwide Health Promotion Program. The ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.37! \| SVS
16 view cover	Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting Its Role more books like this by Professor Christopher B Barrett, Daniel G Maxwell add to wishlist This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put under the microscope to provide the reader with a greater understanding of this important subject matter ... see all copies from $57.08! new only from $63.27! \| SVS
17 view cover	Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia more books like this by Melissa L Caldwell add to wishlist An ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world. Focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $27.54! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Best Things in the Worst Times: An Insider's View of World Vision more books like this by Graeme S Irvine add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.40! \| first editions
19 view cover	Feeding the Crisis: U.S. Food Aid and Farm Policy in Central America more books like this by Rachel Garst, Tom Barry add to wishlist 'The book provides a clear and concise review of U.S. legislation on food aid and farm policy; it summarizes well the debate over food self-sufficiency versus 'comparative advantage' in agricultural trade policy for underdeveloped countries; it provides insights into the counter-insurgency strategy for the Reagan and Bush administrations in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| first editions
20 view cover	Famine in China and the Missionary: Timothy Richard as Relief Administrator and Advocate of National Reform, 1876-1884 more books like this by Paul Richard Bohr add to wishlist see all copies from $112.21!
21	Rooms in the House of Stone: The "Thistle" Series of Essays more books like this by Michael Dorris add to wishlist Essays by Michael Dorris about his travels in drought-plagued Zimbabwe, where he visited refugee camps and farmers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank more books like this by Devi Sridhar add to wishlist We live in an increasingly prosperous world, yet the estimated number of undernourished people has risen, and will continue to rise with the doubling of food prices. A large majority of those affected are living in India. Why have strategies to combat hunger, especially in India, failed so badly? How did a nation that prides itself on booming ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $40.00!
23 view cover	The Selfish Altruist: Relief Work in Famine and War more books like this by Tony Vaux, Anthony Vaux add to wishlist This volume describes and analyzes some of the most traumatic situations involving famine and war of the last two decades of the 20th century, seeking to help the reader to understand what it takes to be an aid worker and how important humanitarian action is today. Famine and war evoke strong emotional reactions, and for most people there is a ... see all copies from $36.19! new only from $36.19! \| SVS
24	Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about Our Foreign Aid and the Hungry more books like this by Joseph Collins, David Kinley, Frances M. Lappe add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95!
25 view cover	Toward an End to Hunger in America more books like this by Peter Eisinger add to wishlist Cheap, plentiful food is an American tradition. We spend a smaller percentage of our income on food than any other nation. We feed much of the world with our surpluses. Consumers, retailers, and restaurants throw away one-quarter of our food stock every year. And yet data collected by the federal government show that almost 12 percent of American ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.59!

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