Acknowledgments viii
List of Abbreviations x
Preface xiii
Part I Massacre 1
1. The Geography of Hunger 3
2. Invisible Hunger 25
3. Protracted Crises 29
Postscript 1 The Gaza Ghetto 35
Postscript 2 Refugees from the North Korean Famine 40
4. The Children of Crateús 43
5. God Is Not a Farmer 46
6. "No One Goes Hungry in Switzerland" 51
7. The Tragedy of Noma 55
Part II The Awakening of Conscience 63
8. Famine and Fatalism: Malthus and Natural Selection 65
9. Josué de Castro, Phase One 70
10. Hitler's "Hunger Plan" 82
11. A Light in the Darkness: The United Nations 91
12. Josué de Castro, Phase Two: A Very Heavy Coffin 97
Part III Enemies of the Right to Food 103
13. The Crusaders of Neoliberalism 105
14. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse 120
15. When Free Trade Kills 129
16. Savonarola on Lake Geneva 134
Part IV The Collapse of the WFP and the FAO's Impotence 139
17. A Billionaire's Fear 141
18. Victory of the Predators 151
19. "Natural" Selection Redux 156
20. Jalil Jilani and Her Children 159
21. The Defeat of Jacques Diouf 164
Postscript: The Murder of Iraq's Children 169
Part V The Vultures of "Green Gold" 177
22. A Great Lie 179
23. Barack Obama's Obsession 184
24. The Curse of Sugarcane 187
Postscript: Hell in Gujarat 195
25. Criminal Recolonization 196
Part VI The Speculators 205
26. The "Tiger Sharks" 207
27. Geneva, World Capital of Agri-Food Speculators 221
28. Land Grabs and the Resistance of the Damned 225
29. The Complicity of the Western States 238
Epilogue 242
Notes 249