World Hunger and International Justice

World Hunger

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"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" Peter Singer
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"Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code" John Arthur

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"Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend" Thomas W. Pogge

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"Feeding People versus Saving Nature" Holmes Rolston III

Essays

"Lifeboat Ethics: The Case Against Helping the Poor," by Garrett Hardin.

Groups that fight hunger

Bread for the World (activist, religiously based, hunger organization).
Donate food by clicking on the Hunger Site
OXFAM International (perhaps the most highly respected non-governmental aid organization)

Hunger and Poverty

Economic Inqeuality is Growing — and Economic Mobility is declining — in most developed countries. OECD Report for 2011
Fletcher, Joseph. "Chronic Famine and the Immorality of Food Aid: A Bow to Garrett Hardin." From Population and Environment 12 (Spring 1991).
Pogge, Thomas W. (1997). "A Global Resources Dividend." In D. Crocker and T. Linden (eds) Ethics of Consumption. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 501-38. [This is the full version of the paper which is abridged for this volume.] Reprinted by permission of Professors Pogge and Crocker. [pdf
Population and Agriculture. Radio interview with Paul Waggoner on the possible effects on the environment of increasing populations. [RealAudio]
Rachels, James. "Vegetarianism and 'the Other Weight Problem". From World Hunger and Moral Obligation (1977). This essay relates explores the connection between the use of animals for food and world hunger. Used here by permission of Professor Rachels.
Amartya Sen. "Population: Delusion and Reality." Nobel Prize winning economist's remarks before the United Nations about the "population problem."
Singer, Peter. "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," New York Times, September 5, 1999. (You will need to register at this site. Registration is free, and well worth it.

Information on hunger, poverty, and population

Center for Global Development.
"Ethiopia and Eritrea: Promoting Stability, Democracy and Human Rights." Michael Clough, Africa Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Food Security Database. Get information for specific countries.
Hunger Links. From the Friedman school and Nutrition and public Policy:, Tufts University. Great single page with numerous links to empirical information, policy reports, and arguments about the nature, scopes, and solutions to world hunger.
Hunger Notes (World Hunger Education Service).
Information on Child Labor in Third World Countries.
International Food Policy Research Institute. A research institute, funded by more than 25 international agencies. Devoted to understanding, and making recommendations concerning, policies to meeting the long-term needs for food and development.
Malthus, Thomas. Essay on the Principle of Population (1794). His classic statement about the tendency toward exponential population growth - growth curtailed only by war, disease, and early death.
Organic farming outperforms convential farming. Thirty-year study.
Ravallion, Martin, and Shaohua Chen. ‘What Can New Survey Data Tell Us about Recent Changes in Distribution and Poverty." The World Bank Economic Review, (1997).
Sustainable Development. Links to various resources from the University of Brussels.
Starvation Net. General, more popular site, with general information on hunger.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2013). The Rise of the South. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2011). Sustainability and Development: A Better Future for All. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2010). The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development.. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2009). Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2007-08). Fighting Climate Change: Human Solidarity in a Divided World. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2006). Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty, and the Global Water Crisis. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United National Human Development Program. Human Development Report (2005): International cooperation at a crossroads: Aid, trade and security in an unequal world. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United Nations Development Program.Human Development Report 2004: Cultural Literacy in Today's Diverse World [pdf]. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United Nations Development Report. Human Development Report 2003: Millennium Development Goals: A compact among nations to end human poverty [pdf]. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2002: Deepening democracy in a fragmented world [pdf]. New York. Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2001: Making new technologies work for human development [pdf]. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development [pdf]. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA 1999), U.S. Action Plan on Food Security.
World Bank. World Development Report 2014: Managing Risk for Development. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality, and Development. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2011: Conflict, Security, and Development.. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2006: Equity and Development. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2005: A Better Investment Climate For Everyone. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work For Poor People. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire Report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2002: Building Institutions for Markets. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is now online.
World Bank. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
World Bank. World Development Report 1999/2000: Entering the 21st Century. New York: Oxford University Press. The entire report is online.
World Food Program of the United Nations.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2010: Health Systems Finance: The Path to Universal Coverage Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2006: Working Together for Health. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2005: Making Every Mother and Child Count. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2004: Changing History. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2003: Shaping the Future. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2001: Mental Health, New Understanding. Geneva: WHO Publications.
World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2000: Health Systems, Improving Performance. Geneva: WHO Publications.

International Justice

Anti-immigration backlash. Criticism of anti-immigration attitudes, sponsored by the National Council of Churches.

Amnesty International. Includes various reports. One of the most recent ones concerns the U.S. sale of implements of torture.
Boston Review special issue on "Immigration."
Daly, Herman E. "Globalization and its Discontents." Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2001. [You will need to "scroll" to page 17]
Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform. An organization that wants to severely restrict immigration into the United State.
"Globalization and the Challenge for Developing Countries." Working paper for the World Bank (2001)
Holocaust Museum's Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
Immigration and Ethnic History Society. The principal historical organization studying immigration. Links to various resources.
Third World Women. A site from About.com with numerous links to issues about the status of women in third world countries.
United Nations Declarations, Covenants, and Treaties on Human Rights.

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56	"Famine, Affluence, and Morality" Peter Singer	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
57	"Famine Relief and the Ideal Moral Code" John Arthur
58	"Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend" Thomas W. Pogge
59	"Feeding People versus Saving Nature" Holmes Rolston III