The New Breadline

A humanitarian with over two decades of experience working for the UN takes aim at the global food crisis--revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere, and what steps we can take to change course At the turn of the twenty-first century, the United Nations believed we were well on our way to eradicating world hunger by 2030. But with only a few years left before that goal, America is experiencing levels of food insecurity not seen since the Great Depression. How could the richest country in the world have so many people going hungry? In Traveling to the most hunger-prone countries across the globe--from Haiti, where elites hoard imported French cheese, to Madagascar, where foreign corporations are snatching up viable farming land from locals,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 each other.

Auteur
JEAN-MARTIN BAUER has served with the World Food Programme in the Sahel and central Africa and has responded to food emergencies in Afghanistan and Syria. Bauer has led WFP country offices in the Republic of the Congo and in Haiti. His work has also focused on leveraging digital tech and analytics to fight hunger. A Washington, DC, native, Bauer holds degrees from the London School of Economics and the Harvard Kennedy School.

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"The director of Haiti's World Food Program takes aim at the global food crisis-revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere, and what steps we can take to change course"--

Résumé
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.

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’s grim history inspired Bauer to pursue his life’s work in food justice. During his long career with the UN, Bauer learned firsthand that the problem of hunger is always political—and like all political conditions, he knew it was something we could work to change.

Traveling to 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.