Multimedia Resources on World Hunger

• Lawrence M. Hinman
     University of San Diego.
  • "Introduction to Ethics and World Hunger"
    • Shockwave version
    • PowerPoint version

• Peter Singer
     Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics
     University Center for Human Values Princeton University
  • "Global Ethics"
        Keynote Address
        Association for Practical and Professional Ethics
       10th Annual Meeting March 1-2, 2001

• Henry Shue
     Cornell University
  • A Conversation about World Hunger and Human Rights
        Interviewed by Lawrence M. Hinman March 2, 2001

• Dr. Oscar Arias
     Former President of Costa Rica, 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
     Founder of the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress
  • "Globalization and Challenges to World Security"
        University of San Diego September 25, 1999

• Take our survey on World Hunger and Poverty.
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Internet Resources on World Hunger

• Dr. Oscar Arias, "Globalization and Challengs to Human Security"
  • Text Version
  • RealVideo Version
• United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN). Latest 1998 information on population trends.
• HungerWeb. Alan Shawn Feinstein Hunger Program at Brown University. Excellent links to other resources
• Virtual Library on International Development. Excellent guide to on-line resources in international development, esp. Africa.
• WorldWatch Information on Lester Brown's Worldwatch Institute and State of the World Report.
• ReliefNet. ReliefNet was one of the first sites on the web to focus on relief and development issues with an emphasis on fundraising and public education.
• Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen's Hunger and Public Action (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. The full text of a superb book--availalbe in full text form on Reliefnet.
• Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty,"New York Times, September 5, 1999.
• "Different Roads to Development: Why it's better to be poor in some countries than in others", The Economist, August 19, 1995. A thoughtful piece thaat considers the question of why life in some poor countries is better than life in other, less poor countries. From ReliefNet.
• William Shawcross, "A Hero of Our Time," The New York Review of Books, November 30, 1995. The story of Fred Cuny, who had become extensively involved in relief and disaster work. From ReliefNet.
• World Neighbors describes itself as a non-profit organization to eliminate hunger disease and poverty in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Contains information on their organization, sustainability, Global Environmental Problems, Maps, actual 3rd World talks, publications, partnerships.


• Zero Population Growth. In their own words, " Zero Population Growth, Inc. (ZPG) is a national non-profit organization working to slow population growth and achieve a sustainable balance of people, resources, and the environment."
• OneWorld Online describes itself as "a worldwide conversation on sustainable human development" and states that it "is the world's biggest and best collection of multimedia material - that's text, graphics, audio and video - on development, the environment and human rights on the Web. "Much of the material is well organized around topics--see, for example, the Special reports on Rwanda and numerous other countries. It is also possible to search the content of the web site. This is a model of the kind of resources that can be provided over the web.
• Towards a Children's Agenda: New Challenges for Social Development. Provided by Save the Children. Documents the neglect of chldren's interests in development planning and offers alternatives.
• The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development.
• The United Nations International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), September 5-13, 1994 in Cairo, Egypt
  • The Cairo Conference Home Page. Maintained by Linkages. An excellent selection of resources.
    • Programme of Action of the United Nations International Conference on Population & Development

NPR's Talk of the Nation

World Food Summit . Guests: Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agrriculture, Head of US Delegation to the World Food Summit; Namanga Ngongi, Deputy Executive Director, World Food Program; Ketumile Masire, President of Botswana, Head of Delegation to World Food Summit. November 18, 1996.

World Hunger . Guests: Pat Young, National Coordinator, World Food Day; David Beckmann, President of Bread For The World. October 17, 1995.

Children and Poverty. Guests: Dr. Marc J. Cohen, Editor, What Governments Can Do: Seventh Annual Report on the State of World Hunger, Senior Research Associate, Bread for the World Institute; Debbie Shore, Associate Director, Share Our Strength. October 21, 1996.

Hugh LaFollette's "Ideas and Issues"

RealAudio

• Interview with David Crocker, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. World Hunger and Development, Mar 21, 1996.
  

Philosophical Resources

Hugh LaFollette and Larry May, "Suffer the Little Children," World Hunger and Morality, ed. William Aiken and Hugh LaFollette (Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1996).

Bill McKibben, "Reaching the Limit," New York Review of Books, May 29, 1997. Reviews of How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen and The Carrying Capacity Briefing Book by the Carrying Capacity Network.

Biliographical essays are drawn from Lawrence M. Hinman, Contemporary Moral Issues

Journals

In addition to the standard ethics journals mentioned in the bibliographical essay at the end of Chapter One, also see the journals Ethics and International Affairs and World Development.

Review Articles

Nigel Dower's "World Poverty" in A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1991) surveys the literature and argues "for a moderate but significant duty of caring in response to the evils of extreme poverty." Onora O'Neill, "International Justice: Distribution," Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Lawrence C. Becker and Charlotte B. Becker (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992), Vol. I, pp. 624-628 provides an insightful and nuanced discussion of the issues of distributive justice, especially insofar as they relate to world hunger.

Reports, etc

Several reports on the state of the world have help to share the international discussion of these issues. In the United States, the Presidential Commission on World Hunger, established by Jimmy Carter, issued Overcoming World Hunger: The Challenge Ahead (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1980). For a more global perspective, see the Brandt report, formally known as the Report of the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, North- South: A Program for Survival (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1980). For replies to this, see Teresa Hayter, The Creation of World Poverty: An Alternative View to the Brandt Report (London: Pluto Press, 1981); Denis Goulet and Michael Hudson, The Myth of Aid: The Hidden Agenda of the Development Reports (New York: IDOC/Maryknoll Press, 1971); and Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, and David Kinley, Aid as Obstacle: Twenty Questions about our Foreign Aid and the Hungry (San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy, 1980./1981). Also see the Brundtland Report