Looking for a career in development with a focus on food security? Here are ten 'classic' reads to add to your library.

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10 books to read before
beginning a career in food
security

2. #DevReads
Looking for a career in
development with a focus on
food security? Here are ten
‘classic’ reads to add to your
library...

3. Food Politics: What Everyone
Needs to Know
Robert Paarlberg
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4. Poverty and Famines: an Essay on
Entitlement and Deprivation
Amartya Sen
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5. Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime:
Food Security and Globalization
C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip Pardey
and Mark Rosegrant
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6. Agriculture and Food in Crisis:
Conflict, Resistance and Renewal
Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar
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7. The World Food Problem:
Toward Ending Undernutrition in
the Third World
Howard Leathers and Phillips Foster
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8. The World Food Economy
Douglas Southgate, Douglas Graham, and
Luther Tweeten
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9. World Hunger: Twelve Myths
Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins,
Peter Rosset and Luis Esparza
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10. Enough: Why the World’s Poorest
Starve in an Age of Plenty
Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman
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11. The Politics of Food: The Global
Conflict Between Food Security
and Food Sovereignty
William Schanbacher
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12. Global Food Security: Challenges
for the Food and Agricultural
System
Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD)
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13. How did we create this list?
This list was compiled by a survey of
available literature on the subject of
food security.
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