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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY Thomas J. Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson. The Atlas of World Hunger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. xiii + 201 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Photographs. Appendixes. Notes. Bibiography. Index. $45.00. Cloth.
Thomas Bassett and Alex Winter-Nelson document the geography of hunger in a volume that provides a new tool for scholars and policymakers and a clear, vivid, accessible account of global poverty and hunger for students and an enquiring general public. Bassett and Winter-Nelson emphasize that hunger problems are "rooted and experienced" at multiple levels, that poverty and lack of entitlements cause hunger, and that "these realities are ultimately rooted in policies and political economies that fail to protect the poor from exacerbating conditions and events that push people deeper into poverty, heighten their vulnerability, and produce hunger" (71).
After demonstrating that measures of hunger through food availability are inadequate because...