Jean-Martin Bauer: Famine Is Not a Natural Event

Food with Mark Bittman

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The humanitarian leader and writer talks to Mark about the paradoxes of famine; what we should be thinking about when we talk about hunger and solutions and what we can do at the global and local levels to help; and how we can raise awareness—and, in turn, prompt action.

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2:00.0	Now on the brink of mass starvation, Haiti's grim history inspired Bauer to pursue his life's work in food justice.
2:08.0	During his long, more than two decades, career with the United Nations World Food Program, Bower learned firsthand that the problem of
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