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The last hunger season a year in an African farm community on the brink of change

Documents the story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger to secure better opportunities for their families, illuminating their challenges while explaining the necessity of improving Africa's agriculture sector.

Main Author: Thurow, Roger.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Public Affairs, [2013]
Subjects:
Farms, Small > Kenya.
Subsistence farming > Kenya.
Food supply > Kenya.
Hunger > Kenya.
Agricultural development projects > Kenya.
Kenya > Rural conditions.
Summary: Documents the story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger to secure better opportunities for their families, illuminating their challenges while explaining the necessity of improving Africa's agriculture sector.
Item Description: Includes new epilogue and reading group guide (pages 263-283).
Physical Description: xx, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781610392402
161039240X
Author Notes: Roger Thurow is a senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for thirty years. 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 WhyHunger award and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and for the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award; and the author of The Last Hunger Season . He is a 2009 recipient of the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award. A long time Chicagoan, he now lives near Washington, DC.

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