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The New Breadline

Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

by Jean-Martin Bauer
Jean-Martin Bauer
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps we can take to change course.
"This book should be required reading for the entire human race."
—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of We Are the Weather
At the turn of the twenty-first century, more than 150 countries pledged to eradicate hunger by 2030. But with only a few years left, we’re far from reaching that goal. Instead, hunger is on the rise—America itself recently experienced levels of food insecurity not seen since the Great Depression. How could the richest nation in the world have so many people going hungry?
In The New Breadline, aid worker and activist Jean-Martin Bauer unravels this paradox. Bauer’s family fled to America during the terrors of the Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti. Now on the brink of mass starvation, Haiti and its grim history inspired Bauer to make food justice his life's work. During his long career with the UN, Bauer learned firsthand that the problem of hunger is always political—and like all political conditions, hunger, he knew, was something we could work to change.
Drawing from his fieldwork in the most hunger-prone countries across the globe—from Haiti, where elites hoard imported French cheese, to Madagascar, where foreign corporations are snatching up valuable land from local farmers, to right here in America, where the lines at food banks continue to grow—Bauer weaves profound personal insight with a keen understanding of the structural systems of racism, classism, and sexism that thwart true progress in the battle against hunger. The New Breadline is an inspiring call to action to end what he persuasively argues is one of the greatest threats to our society, boldly envisioning a world where we can always feed ourselves and one another.

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    June 25, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780593906842
      • File size: 219385 KB
      • Duration: 07:37:02

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      December 6, 2024

      Decades of humanitarian aid experience and his current work with the World Food Program make food activist Bauer well qualified to inform listeners of the root causes and branching complexities that lead to food insecurity on a massive scale. Bridging the personal and the prescriptive, this author-narrated audiobook maintains a tone balanced between a reminiscence and a briskly straightforward report. With a sibilant, slightly French-accented voice, Bauer incorporates his Haitian American identity throughout with quotes from Jacques Roumain's Masters of the Dew heading each chapter--a repetition that adds a poetic cadence to the listening experience and reminds all audiences of one severely hunger-afflicted nation's cultural history. Bauer explains how political history and contemporary politics, particularly the politics of conflict, colonialism, and marginality, are intrinsic to all forms of food insecurity, as much as "la pluie et prix" (rain and prices) are to mass famine. As globalization artificially suppresses prices, destroying self-sufficient smallholders, and global warming makes the rains unpredictable, the future prescriptions Bauer outlines emphasize locality and sustainability. VERDICT Bauer accessibly, if bleakly, conveys the scope of today's global food crisis and recommends the systemic change necessary to solve hunger. Recommended for larger collections, both public and academic.--Lauren Kage

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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