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The New Breadline

Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century

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The New Breadline

By: 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.

©2024 Jean-Martin Bauer (P)2024 Random House Audio
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“No subject more urgently requires our attention than world hunger. I cannot imagine a more thoughtful and humane introduction to the crisis of food security than The New Breadline."—Jonathan Safran Foer, author of We Are the Weather

"In the midst of the global food crisis, I find myself searching for stories of hope with tangible solutions now more than ever. In The New Breadline, Jean-Martin Bauer draws upon a lifetime on the frontlines of fighting hunger to deliver a must-read handbook that will inform, inspire, and ignite action to repair our broken food system."—José Andrés, Chef and Founder of World Central Kitchen

The New Breadline is a narratively-compelling, timely, and prescriptive book about the problems of hunger and food security in today’s world. Bauer writes with intelligence and brio about a topic he knows extremely well. Drawing on a superb grasp of history and his own experiences as a humanitarian worker who has dealt with food crises around the world—everywhere from Haiti and the Middle East to Africa—Bauer offers practical pathways to hope.”—Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Fall of Baghdad

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A brilliant book on hunger reasons and solutions

A brilliant insight on global food supply systems closely studying hunger in the 21st century, mentally mapping the historical reasons and recommending solutions for future individual and social impact.

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Modern Solutions and perspectives in humanity's greatest fight.

Such an amazing tale of events, captivating and truly capturing the challenges and opportunities in the great fight against hunger. This well- written work vividly depicts the true realities with great facts - showing what some may consider a small grain of sand in a colossal machine, yet can still have devastating impacts. A strongly recommended read.

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