Twelve Myths About Hunger
Backgrounders & Issue Brief | Frances Moore Lappé, Joseph Collins and Peter Rosset | Aug 1, 1998
Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Rather than increasing food production through land reform and agroecology, the Green Revolution promotes technological intensification using new seed varieties, mechanization and agrochemicals. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on the Green Revolution
Why so much hunger? What can we do about it? To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Every minute, someone in the Third World becomes a victim of pesticide poisoning.