Top 10 #devreads before beginning a career in food security

#DevReads

10 books to read before beginning a career in food security

#DevReads

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

Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Robert Paarlberg

Poverty and Famines: an Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

Amartya Sen

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Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization

C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip Pardey and Mark Rosegrant

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Agriculture and Food in Crisis: Conflict, Resistance and Renewal

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Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar

The World Food Problem: Toward Ending Undernutrition in the Third World

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Howard Leathers and Phillips Foster

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The World Food Economy

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Douglas Southgate, Douglas Graham, and Luther Tweeten

World Hunger: Twelve Myths

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Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset and Luis Esparza

Enough: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

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Roger Thurow and Scott Kilman

The Politics of Food: The Global Conflict Between Food Security and Food Sovereignty

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William Schanbacher

Global Food Security: Challenges for the Food and Agricultural System

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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

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How did we create this list?

This list was compiled by a survey of available literature on the subject of food security. Want to recommend a book to add to this list? Comment below and tell us or tweet @devex #DevReads.