Hunger

Préface
A powerful and important book on a global crisis in food production and starvation.

Auteur
Martín Caparrós was born in Buenos Aires in 1957. Since being exiled aged 18, he lived in four countries and travelled through more than sixty before eventually resettling in his homeland. For more than 25 years, Caparrós has worked as a journalist for print, radio, and television. He has published a vast body of work including nine novels and a wide range of non-fiction, from travel narratives and a biography, to a history of Argentinean guerrillas and a translation of Shakespeare.

Texte du rabat

A powerful, passionate and empathetic book that tackles our global crisis in food production and starvation, in a bid to expose the exponential scale that we are facing, together with seeking insightful and universal solutions to the problems.

Résumé

25,000 men, women, and children die every day from hunger or malnutrition around the world. And yet, food is not lacking: in fact, it is in abundance, as the planet strains under the effect of overproduction. How can we resolve this paradox?

This is the question that Martín Caparrós explores in this urgent and important book by giving a voice to people suffering from the crisis, as well as those striving to alleviate it. Above all, Caparrós is determined to uncover the mechanisms that result in almost one billion people starving while others become obese.

Hunger is a crucial, passionate, and deeply empathetic book, committed to exposing the scale of this universal crisis and seeking insightful solutions.