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Last Hunger Season
Roger Thurow
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Description for Last Hunger Season
Paperback. The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa's agriculture sector Num Pages: 328 pages, includes an 8-pp. B/W photo insert on text. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; GTF; JFFA; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 211 x 25. Weight in Grams: 342.
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said,"from misery to Canaan,” the land of milk and honey.Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. ... Read more
At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western Kenya would begin their exodus, as she said,"from misery to Canaan,” the land of milk and honey.Africa's smallholder farmers, most of whom are women, know misery. They toil in a time warp, living and working essentially as their forebears did a century ago. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The Perseus Books Group United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781610392402
SKU
V9781610392402
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Roger Thurow
Roger Thurow is a senior fellow for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was, for thirty years, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. He is, with Scott Kilman, the author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty, which won the Harry Chapin Why Hunger book award and ... Read more
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