By A humanitarian leader with more than two decades of experience working for the United Nations, takes aim at the global food crisis—revealing how hunger anywhere affects lives everywhere and what steps can be taken to change course. Argues that the problem of hunger is always political—and like all political conditions, hunger is something we can work to change. Drawing from his fieldwork in the most hunger-prone countries across the globe—from Haiti, where elites hoard imported French cheese, to Madagascar, where foreign corporations are snatching up valuable land from local farmers, to America, where the lines at food banks continue to grow—weaves an understanding of the structural systems of racism, classism, and sexism that thwart true progress in the battle against hunger.