Frances Moore Lappé
Biographic Data
| ID | 180919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Moore Lappé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances Moore |
| FAMILY NAME | Lappé |
| SIGNATURE | LAPPÉ F M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How We Count Hunger Matters
Hunger continues to be one of humanity's greatest challenges despite the existence of a more-than-adequate global food supply equal to 2,800 kilocalories for every person every day. In measuring progress, policy-makers and concerned citizens across the globe rely on information supplied by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an agency of the United Nations. In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and …
Beyond the scarcity scare: Reframing the Discourse of Hunger With an Eco-Mind
Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame - a set of assumptions - that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greate…
World hunger: Twelve Myths
Food first
Multinational Agribusiness and the Global Supermarket
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
The World Food Problem
Historically, people have tried to deny their own culpability for mass human suffering by assigning responsibility to external forces beyond their control. For example, although the Black Death in the Middle Ages was largely the result of unwillingness of a class society to extend sanitation to the masses, it was nevertheless pronounced Divine retribution by the churches. Today the causes of hunger are similarly misattributed. Current widespread …
How We Count Hunger Matters
Hunger continues to be one of humanity's greatest challenges despite the existence of a more-than-adequate global food supply equal to 2,800 kilocalories for every person every day. In measuring progress, policy-makers and concerned citizens across the globe rely on information supplied by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an agency of the United Nations. In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and …
Beyond the scarcity scare: Reframing the Discourse of Hunger With an Eco-Mind
Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame - a set of assumptions - that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greate…
Multinational Agribusiness and the Global Supermarket
The World Food Problem
Historically, people have tried to deny their own culpability for mass human suffering by assigning responsibility to external forces beyond their control. For example, although the Black Death in the Middle Ages was largely the result of unwillingness of a class society to extend sanitation to the masses, it was nevertheless pronounced Divine retribution by the churches. Today the causes of hunger are similarly misattributed. Current widespread …
Multinational Agribusiness and the Global Supermarket
Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity
Food first
World hunger: Twelve Myths
How We Count Hunger Matters
Hunger continues to be one of humanity's greatest challenges despite the existence of a more-than-adequate global food supply equal to 2,800 kilocalories for every person every day. In measuring progress, policy-makers and concerned citizens across the globe rely on information supplied by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an agency of the United Nations. In 2010 the FAO reported that in the wake of the 2007–2008 food-price spikes and …
Beyond the scarcity scare: Reframing the Discourse of Hunger With an Eco-Mind
Solutions to world hunger continue to be impeded by a frame - a set of assumptions - that keeps much of humanity focusing narrowly on quantitative growth. The result is greater food production and greater hunger. Yet, across the world another way of seeing, one grounded in the relational insights of ecology, is transforming food systems in ways that both enhance flora and fauna and strengthen human relationships, enabling farmers to gain a greate…
Economics (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Aliments (2 works) · Approvisionnement (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (2 works) · Food supply (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hunger (2 works) · Political science (2 works)