Roger Thurow: 3 books
The Last Hunger Season
A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
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...
The First 1,000 Days
A Crucial Time for Mothers and Children-And the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
"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 were Esther Okwir in rural Uganda, where the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world; Jessica Saldana, a high...
Enough
Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2009
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...