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  • Against the Grain

    How Farmers Around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet

    par Roger Thurow ...
    When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary—and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.Farmers in some of the world's oldest agricultural areas—Africa's Great Rift Valley, India's Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Highlands of Central America, and the Great Plains of the U.S.—were toiling year after year, only to ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Abiding Hunger

    An American Paradox

    par Roger Thurow ...
    A thorough and urgent examination of America’s oldest, most enduring contradiction: hunger in the land of abundance.Throughout his time as foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Roger Thurow covered humanitarian stories from all over the world, including famine in Ethiopia and the devastating impacts of international food crises. It was generally accepted that hunger was a problem ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The First 1,000 Days

    A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children -- And the World

    par Roger Thurow ...
    An award-winning journalist and anti-hunger advocate explores the promise of-and challenges to-a transformative initiative to end early childhood malnutrition“Your child can achieve great things.” A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true; among them, Esther in rural Uganda, Jessica in a violence-scarred Chicago neighborhood, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Against the Grain

    How Farmers around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet

    par Roger Thurow ...
    When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary—and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process.Farmers in some of the world’s oldest agricultural areas—Africa’s Great Rift Valley, India’s Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Highlands of Central America, and the Great Plains of the U.S.—were toiling year after year, only to ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Enough

    Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

    For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet in Africa, more than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year -- most of them children. In this powerful investigative narrative, Wall Street Journal reporters Kilman & Thurow show exactly how, in the past few decades, Western policies ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Last Hunger Season

    A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

    par Roger Thurow ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Los primeros 1000 dias

    A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children -- And the World

    par Roger Thurow ...
    “Su hijo puede lograr grandes cosas”.Hace unos años, mujeres embarazadas en cuatro rincones del mundo escucharon esas palabras y esperaban que pudieran ser ciertas. Entre ellas, Esther, de la zona rural de Uganda; Jessica, de un vecindario de Chicago marcado por la violencia; Shyamkali, de una aldea de casta baja en India; y María Estela, del altiplano occidental de Guatemala.Alcanzar la grandeza ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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    Against the Grain

    How Farmers around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet

    par Roger Thurow ...
    Lu par Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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    7 heure 57 min

    Farmers in some of the world's oldest agricultural areas were toiling year after year, only to find that modern industrial agriculture was turning on itself. Industrial agriculture's effects on our climate and environment were multiplying and worsening, until the very families growing the world's food were starving.They terraced the land to catch more rainwater and prevent soil runoff; they ... En savoir plus

    $28.84 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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    The First 1,000 Days

    A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children -- And the World

    par Roger Thurow ...
    Lu par James Edward Thomas ...

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    11 heure 10 min

    An award-winning journalist and anti-hunger advocate explores the promise of-and challenges to-a transformative initiative to end early childhood malnutrition“Your child can achieve great things.” A few years ago, pregnant women in four corners of the world heard those words and hoped they could be true; among them, Esther in rural Uganda, Jessica in a violence-scarred Chicago neighborhood, ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

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    How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children

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  • 40 Chances

    Finding Hope in a Hungry World

    With a foreword by Warren Buffett, 40 Chances is an “inspiring manifesto…both an informative guidebook and a catalyst for igniting real changes” (Booklist) in the struggle against world hunger.If someone granted you $3 billion to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? In 2006, legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son Howard G. Buffett. Howard set out ... En savoir plus

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